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...
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...
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 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...
Senate Forum Examined the Ramifications of NIH Funding Cuts
A congressional forum hosted by Senators Tammy Baldwin and Peter Welch examined how NIH funding cuts could impact cancer...
Roadblocks and Potential Solutions in Anticancer Drug Development
It is an exciting era for drug development in oncology. The many discoveries of new molecular targets, coupled with...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I: The Opening Session
In an extraordinary turn of events, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2020 kicked off Monday...
AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Welcoming a New Class of Global Scholars-in-Training
For a second year in a row, the Global Scholar-in-Training Award (GSITA) program will welcome early-career researchers from around...
AACR Annual Meeting 2023: Five Things You Need to Know
The AACR Annual Meeting 2023 kicks off Friday, April 14, with thousands of cancer researchers from around the world...
AACR Launches 13th Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities
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...
Three AACR Reports Capture the State of Cancer Science and Medicine in 2022
By Kaleem Zaidi, PhDAACR Executive Office The year 2022 marked significant progress against cancer, thanks to advances in cancer...
AACR Shares Mission of World Cancer Day: Ending Disparities
World Cancer Day is February 4, 2023. This annual initiative by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) aims...