Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a United Nations initiative aimed at encouraging full and equal participation in sciences for women and girls around the world. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is proud to have a powerful roster of female leaders in science. Cancer Research Catalyst posts in the past two years have captured their messages of empowerment and encouragement.
Due to the high cost of care and cost-sharing, many of the more than 16.9 million survivors in the United States face significant financial challenges. Research-driven progress against cancer has created a growing population...
Medical oncologist and lung cancer expert Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, discusses early data on drugs that target a mutated form of the KRAS protein
A roundup of the week in cancer research news from the staff of Cancer Today magazine.
The number of cancer patients and survivors visiting emergency departments for opioid overdoses more than doubled between 2006 and 2015, but overdoses are still uncommon in this group.
Thanks to a wave of newly approved therapies in the past two decades, survival rates for multiple myeloma have increased dramatically. Still, the cancer research community is concerned about disparities in patient care. African Americans are disproportionately affected by multiple myeloma, having a two- to three-fold higher incidence of multiple myeloma compared with whites and representing 20 percent of the multiple myeloma patients in the U.S. Despite this difference in incidence, African Americans have historically been underrepresented in clinical trials for multiple myeloma therapies.
Despite considerable progress against cancer, the disease continues to take a huge toll on global health. Each year, approximately 9.6 million people around the world die of cancer. And while some nations have seen cancer death rates stabilize or decline, many countries face rising rates of the disease. The advances in research, treatment, and diagnosis that have reduced the cancer burden in wealthier nations have not been shared by lower- or middle-income countries.
Researchers developed a risk prediction model that could categorize individuals with lung nodules as having high or low risk for lung cancer.
Once the leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women, cervical cancer now accounts for less than 1 percent of cancer-related deaths among women in the United States. This dramatic decrease is largely due to the implementation of screening, which can detect precancerous lesions and early-stage cancer, and vaccination, which can prevent the cancer from developing at all.
Back for the new decade is our regular staple: the monthly collection of 10 “must read” articles that have been handpicked by editors from the eight journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Earlier this month, the AACR announced that its ninth peer-reviewed journal, Blood Cancer Discovery, published its first article, which was highlighted in a recent blog post. Like the studies summarized below, this inaugural article is freely available.
AACR Fellow Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, leads a national effort targeting triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer with a novel drug combination.
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