Wenora Johnson: Diagnosis of Precancerous Polyps After Pandemic-Related Delay in Colonoscopy
Age 55Joliet, Illinois Wenora Johnson, 55, knows the importance of routine cancer screening and preventive measures all too well....
Regulatory Science and Policy Track
The Regulatory Science and Policy track provides attendees with an opportunity to interact with the U.S. Food and Drug...
Tobacco Products and Cancer Policy Positions and Statements
The AACR regularly issues comments and position statements on federal policies related to tobacco control. Please see the links...
Allyson Pile: Accessing a Clinical Trial for Stage IV Medullary Thyroid Cancer During the Pandemic
Age: 33 Los Angeles, California For Allyson Pile, it was scary to receive an advanced-stage cancer diagnosis at the...
Cancer Policy Monitor: May 13, 2025
Appropriations Update—President Releases “Skinny” FY2026 Budget Request –Carly McCallie As expected following a leaked draft in mid-April, the administration...
Cancer Policy Monitor: January 14, 2025
Appropriations Update -Matt Gontarchick Just prior to leaving for the holidays on December 20, Congress passed a continuing resolution...
Cancer Policy Monitor: September 9, 2025
Congress Confronts NIH Budget Decisions as Shutdown Looms -Matt Gontarchick With government funding set to expire on September 30,...
About the AACR
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the first and largest cancer research organization dedicated to accelerating the...
Cancer Policy Monitor: June 11, 2024
Congressional Update -Benjamin Krinsky, PhD With appropriations season underway, the House of Representatives has begun consideration of fiscal year...
Previous AACR Meetings: 2021
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 7-10, 2021Symposium Codirectors: Carlos L. Arteaga, Virginia G. KaklamaniProgram | Abstracts AACR-KCA Joint...
Cancer Policy Monitor: February 13, 2024
AACR Celebrates “FDA Legend” Janet Woodcock, MD After a remarkable 38 years of public service, Janet Woodcock, MD, has...
Previous AACR Meetings: 2020
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 8-11, 2020Codirectors: Carlos L. Arteaga, Virginia G. Kaklamani, C. Kent OsborneSchedule at a...
Cancer Policy Monitor: July 11, 2023
Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill After months of negotiation, congressional leaders and senior White House officials reached a bipartisan,...
Cancer Policy Monitor: August 9, 2022
President Biden Names AACR Past President Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD Chair of the President’s Cancer Panel Register for the...
AACR Congressional Events
Throughout the year, the AACR hosts several congressional events designed to educate members of Congress and their staff about...
Cancer Policy Monitor: June 13, 2023
AACR President Phil Greenberg Participates in AACR-AACI Joint Hill Day to Advocate for NIH and NCI Funding -Blake Rostine...
Cancer Policy Monitor: June 14, 2022
AACR President Submits Testimony in Support of Increased Federal Investments in Medical Research The AACR is actively engaged with...
Media Coverage Archive
See the archive of news covering the AACR’s scientific meetings, journals, and programs; policy and advocacy work; and philanthropic...
Cancer Policy Monitor: May 10, 2022
May is National Cancer Research Month Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill An Op Ed on “How to Reduce Racial...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I: A Global Perspective of COVID-19 in Patients with Cancer
At the time of this writing, more than 3.3 million individuals have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and more than 222,000 have died from the...
“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 COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: The Distressing Intersection of the Pandemic and Noncommunicable Diseases
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous global toll. Worldwide, nearly 15 million cases of the disease have been reported,...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Disparities During the Pandemic
At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), we know that our mission to prevent and cure all cancers must encompass all...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Dr. Fauci Launches Meeting with Keynote Address
The AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer opened Monday with a keynote address from the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Well...
AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
Week 1 of the AACR Annual Meeting 2021 wrapped up on Thursday. The meeting drew more than 13,500 attendees...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Report: Patients, Policymakers, and Researchers Share Their Stories
Guest post by Patrick Williams, PhDAACR Scientific Research Analyst In a virtual Congressional briefing on February 9, 2022, the...
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 COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Cancer Researchers Shift Focus to the Pandemic
In the global battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer researchers are proving to be formidable forces. Armed with deep...
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...