Clinical outcomes are similar between Black and non-Black patients when patients receive identical treatment and follow-up in a highly structured study environment, researchers say. When Black patients were included in proportion to the larger...
Younger Americans are less likely to get screened for colorectal cancer screening, a study finds. The gaps were largest among racial and ethnic minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals.
Factors associated with the imaging facility, rather than individual characteristics, may explain some of the differences the accuracy of mammograms across racial and ethnic groups.
The 10-year survival beginning five years after diagnosis IS seen as about 10 percent lower than in age-matched general population, a gap that persists for many years, The study reports. People who were treated...
Pediatric patients whose cancer had relapsed were successfully matched to new gene-targeted therapies in large European trial, according to a study in the AACR journal Cancer Discovery.
Editor’s note: This story, written by Anna Azvolinsky, first appeared in Leading Discoveries, a magazine and website that raises awareness of the AACR and its members. To learn more about Dr. Carpten’s involvement with AACR...
Compared to urbanites, rural residents tend to think little can be done about cancer and feel overloaded with cancer-related information.
A study finds that people aged 20-30 years in the U.S. had the biggest increase in metastatic, early-onset colorectal cancer between 2000 and 2016, and that Blacks and Hispanics may have the highest risk.
New interventions and therapies lead to a near doubling of survival of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia following relapse after transplants.
The first classification of childhood tumors separating them from adult cancers will be published as a "blue book" by the World Health Organization.
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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