“We Have to Be Involved” – A Preview of the AACR Virtual Meeting on COVID-19 and Cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the United States and other parts of the world. To date, 13 million cases have been...
AACR Virtual Meeting I & II: Platforms for COVID-19 and Cancer Discussions
The COVID-19 pandemic remains at the center of health and science news as cases of the disease continue to rise...
AACR Releases Groundbreaking Report on COVID-19 and Cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll, with 5.8 million deaths worldwide, including nearly 1 million in the...
AACR Virtual Meeting on COVID-19 and Cancer: “Lightspeed” Vaccine Development—How Did They Do It?
On December 31, 2019, the first cases of “a pneumonia of unknown cause”—now known to be COVID-19—were reported in China, and the initial confirmed...
World Cancer Day: The AACR Supports Globalized Cancer Research Throughout the Pandemic
Editor’s note: Thursday, Feb. 4, marks World Cancer Day, an annual initiative led by the Union for International Cancer...
Closing the Cancer Disparities Gap Broadened by COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases and death rates fall, and in-person activities resume, cancer centers once again fill their beds with...
AACR Disparities Meeting: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
While cancer and COVID-19 are, biologically, very different diseases, they have shaken the world in surprisingly similar ways. Nearly...
Annual Meeting 2022: T Cells Provide Hope for Cancer Patients Facing COVID-19
Since COVID-19 first began its siege on the world, much of our scientific knowledge about the disease—and its source...
Protecting Patients With Blood Cancers From COVID-19
Blood cancer patients are highly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. Now mounting evidence suggests they may be also among the least protected...
Cancer Screening and Early Detection During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium Forms to Collect and Share Information
Guest post by Jeremy Warner, MD, MS, and Deborah Doroshow, MD, PhD The world is facing a pandemic unlike...
Patient Advocate Forum Explores the Effects of COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic took root in the United States, many hospitals and cancer centers temporarily suspended treatments and...
Do Patients With Cancer Have Prolonged Viral Shedding Following Infection With SARS-CoV-2?
Numerous studies have shown that individuals with cancer fare worse than the general population if they contract COVID-19, with...
The AACR and 140 Organizations Send Letter to President Biden Requesting High COVID-19 Vaccine Priority for Cancer Patients and Survivors
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) last week led a contingent of 140 organizations, cancer centers, and other...
SABCS 2021: How Are Breast Cancer Survivors Navigating Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
When Abigail Johnston’s first child entered preschool six years ago, a vigilant pediatrician recommended an unusual strategy for minimizing...
Decades of Cancer Vaccine Research Enabled Rapid Development of COVID-19 Vaccines
Editor’s note: This post was written by Nicholas Warren, PhD, science policy program administrator in the AACR’s Office of...
AACR Supports World Cancer Research Day
Every September 24, World Cancer Research Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the important role research plays...
Experts Forecast Cancer Research and Treatment Advances in 2022
The year 2021 defied our expectations in a variety of ways. The delta and omicron COVID-19 variants imposed unprecedented...
Early-career Scientists Advocate for Federal Funding for Cancer Research
Each year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) holds Early-career Hill Day, an event that connects AACR Associate...
COVID-19 and Cancer: Assessing the Impact of Disruptions to Care
Guest Post by William G. Nelson, MD, PhD Editor-in-Chief, Cancer Today The nationwide shutdown of elective clinical procedures implemented in...
Editors’ Picks: August Highlights from the AACR Journals
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...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II: Current Events Meet Cancer Science
On April 27, cancer researchers, health care professionals, patients, advocates, and policymakers around the world logged on to their...
AACR Journals Editors’ Picks for June
This month, the editors of the AACR’s journals have chosen to highlight an analysis of birth characteristics and risk...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting II: Opening Ceremony Sets Focus on Science, Policy
The Opening Ceremony of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting II provided a stark reminder that...
AACR Annual Meeting 2022: We Can’t Wait to See You There
For the first time since 2019, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting is set to return...
Editors’ Picks: December Highlights from the AACR Journals
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...
AACR Initiatives Bolster Diversity, Take Aim at Disparities
Disparities in health care are among the most significant forms of inequality and injustice. In the United States, racial...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I: A Roundup of Cancer Research Catalyst Posts
Just over a month ago, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held the first portion of its Annual...
AACR Stands Ready as Biden Relaunches the Cancer Moonshot
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc), chief executive officer of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), along with other...
AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Discovery Science Driving Clinical Breakthroughs
The Opening Ceremony of AACR Annual Meeting 2021 set the stage for a dynamic forum for presenting and sharing...