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...
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...
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...
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...
SABCS 2020: Managing Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As we approach the end of the year that was consumed by the pandemic, more than 68 million people...
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...
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...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: A Roundup of Blog Posts
As the COVID-19 pandemic began crossing the globe, scientists from many disciplines anticipated its scope and deployed their research...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Developing Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
“The development of tests that can identify individuals actively infected with SARS-CoV-2 is of obvious and utmost importance for...
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...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Tracking the Evolution and Spread of SARS-CoV-2
In January, when most of us in the United States were busy living the hustle and bustle of everyday life, one shrewd virologist and computer biologist saw...
Experts Forecast Cancer Research and Treatment Advances in 2021
2020 was filled with unexpected challenges for cancer research and patient care. As many of us shifted our lives...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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...
Screening Plays a Crucial Role in Cancer Prevention Efforts
Putting off a routine medical examination for a few months might seem, to many, as routine as the examination...
NIH-AACR Cancer, Autoimmunity, and Immunology Conference: Virtual Presentations Highlight Advances in Managing Adverse Events
“These are extraordinary times,” began Hugh Auchincloss, MD, as he opened up the recent NIH-AACR Cancer, Autoimmunity, and Immunology...
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...