AACR StoriesThe Faces & Voices Behind the Science
Both of Dr. Patricia LoRusso’s parents died of cancer when she was a teenager, inspiring her to become an oncologist and focus on developing new treatments for people with cancer.
“It worked better than our wildest dreams,” Dr. Luis Diaz said of a therapeutic approach that uses a tumor biomarker to identify patients likely to respond to immunotherapy.
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Research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting highlights the great potential of liquid biopsy to benefit patients across the continuum of cancer care.
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For Rachel Orth and her family, the devastation of a diagnosis of metastatic stomach cancer was compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn MoreAshani Weeraratna, PhD, and Ekrem Emrah Er, PhD, explain how a tumor’s surroundings direct its growth and progression, and research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022 shows how scientists can manipulate those surroundings to treat cancer.
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