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Genetic Ancestry and Prostate Cancer: Personalizing Early Detection and Treatment

Ancestry-informed biology and precision treatment are helping to change the game for patients with prostate cancer.

Researchers are shedding light on the multifaceted ways extrachromosomal DNA impacts cancer development and resistance to targeted therapies.

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Collaborating to Advance Cancer Precision Medicine Globally

Launched in 2015, AACR Project GENIE® is powering advances in cancer precision medicine through an international collaboration of top cancer centers that are sharing data for all to access.

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AACR Grant Propels Progress in Immunotherapy Research

Using funding from the AACR, early-career investigator Marco Ruella, MD, found a way to improve immunotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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Bringing Cervical Cancer Treatment to More Women

Chemtai Mungo is researching an innovative self-treatment strategy for cervical precancer could save lives of women in underserved areas.

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Researching Ways to Intercept Cancer at Its Earliest StagesTumors are “born to be bad” with metastatic potential present from the start and spread to other organs when the original malignancy is the size of a poppy seed, explains Dr. Christina Curtis.

Moving the Dial Forward for Children with CancerAn AACR fellowship as a young pediatrician helped Michael Jensen, MD, become a physician-scientist, using clinical insights to inform the search for new cancer therapeutics in the laboratory.

AACR Grantee Studies a Rare Form of SarcomaSmall donations to the AACR added up to big support for promising new research by Madelyn Espinosa-Cotton, PhD, on a rare type of cancer that strikes teenagers and young adults.

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