World Cancer Day and the AACR: Taking Aim at Disparities
In the United States, advances in cancer research have dramatically improved outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer. While pediatric...
In the United States, advances in cancer research have dramatically improved outcomes for children diagnosed with cancer. While pediatric...
Blood cancer patients are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. Now mounting evidence suggests they may be also among the least protected...
As infections from SARS-CoV-2 began to rapidly spread across the United States in early 2020, many nonessential medical procedures, including cancer screenings, were...
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and its 47,000 member scientists and physicians are unified in a strong desire...
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the AACR Annual...
Editor’s note: This post was written by Nicholas Warren, PhD, science policy program administrator in the AACR’s Office of...
On April 27, cancer researchers, health care professionals, patients, advocates, and policymakers around the world logged on to their...
The Opening Ceremony of AACR Annual Meeting 2021 set the stage for a dynamic forum for presenting and sharing...
Just over a month ago, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held the first portion of its Annual...
Guest post by Jeremy Warner, MD, MS, and Deborah Doroshow, MD, PhD The world is facing a pandemic unlike...
As the coronavirus pandemic took root in the United States, many hospitals and cancer centers temporarily suspended treatments and...
Each year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) holds Early-career Hill Day, an event that connects AACR Associate...
From a joyous opening performance from the Preservation Hall All-Stars to a closing plenary that highlighted the full spectrum...
Numerous studies have shown that individuals with cancer fare worse than the general population if they contract COVID-19, with...
Throughout his career as a cancer researcher, Robert A. Winn, MD, has seen a familiar pattern in progress. Each...
For a second year in a row, the Global Scholar-in-Training Award (GSITA) program will welcome early-career researchers from around...
“Where is the field of cancer research going?” posed Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, as he welcomed attendees to “AACR...
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe this spring, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) launched a major...
Excitement and emotion ran high Sunday morning as Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc), chief executive officer of the American...
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When Abigail Johnston’s first child entered preschool six years ago, a vigilant pediatrician recommended an unusual strategy for minimizing...
This month, the editors of the AACR’s journals have decided to feature a clinical trial evaluating prolonged treatment with ibrutinib for patients with chronic...
Friday morning, the AACR’s virtual conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved opened against a...
The year 2022 will be remembered as the time when the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic began to...
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was dominating the headlines, but CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski was happy at home. He...
A session at the AACR Annual Meeting 2024 offered advice on better ways to communicate science to the public....
This month, the editors of the AACR’s journals have chosen to highlight an analysis of birth characteristics and risk...
As the year draws to a close, we bring you the final edition of Editors’ Picks for 2020. This monthly roundup features one “must read” article, handpicked by...
Monday afternoon, First Lady Jill Biden visited the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Hollings Cancer Center as part...
The term “hackathon” may conjure up images of beanie-wearing coders working in dark basements, trying to build a new...