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...
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...
Expanding Hope for Cancer Research in Africa
Mubarak Labaran Liman has overcome the death of his father and a scarcity of resources to develop a thriving...
Destigmatizing Cancer in African American Communities: The Power of Open Communication
To improve cancer outcomes among African Americans, open communication within families and the community is crucial to help break...
A Researcher’s Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Disparities in Cancer
Black Americans are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white Americans, highlighting a major...
AACR President Advocates for Federal Investment in Cancer Research
The most recent edition of The Cancer Letter features an op-ed from AACR President David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD,...
AACR’s Inaugural Pediatric Cancer Progress Report Highlights Decades of Advances, Powerful Survivor Stories, and Urgent Unmet Needs
The inaugural AACR Pediatric Cancer Progress Report details advances in treating children and adolescents with cancer and remaining gaps...
AACR Project GENIE: Advancing Cancer Research Through Data Sharing
AACR Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange, or GENIE for short, has released one of the largest fully public...
AACR Annual Meeting 2023: Boosting Diversity in Clinical Trials (Part 2, Community Engagement)
A study that examined the catchment areas of 102 cancer centers in the U.S. found that while over a...
New Open Access Journal, Cancer Research Communications, Expands the Reach of the AACR Journals
The recently launched Cancer Research Communications (CRC) is the latest addition to the AACR’s journal portfolio. The new journal...
Structural Racism and Cancer Disparities: Looking at All the Angles
Melissa Davis, PhD, is putting health disparities under a lens. One that can take an aerial view of the...
Key Policy Sessions Set for AACR Annual Meeting 2017
In addition to the robust scientific program at this year’s AACR Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., a number of...
Forging U.S.-China Cancer Research Collaborations
China, a nation of 1.3 billion people, is facing an ongoing cancer epidemic, with more than 3 million people...
AACR to Host Community Event in Washington, D.C.
As part of a growing public affairs program, the American Association for Cancer Research is excited to once again...
How Chemical Probes Can Boost Cancer Research
Chemical probes are small, drug-like molecules that are useful in interrogating biology in disease models. In order for a...
Global Scholar-in-Training Program Seeks 2023 Class of Awardees
The AACR is pleased to offer the Global Scholar-in-Training Awards (GSITA) to eligible early-career investigators in countries building cancer...
Annual Meeting 2022: Highlights and Vision for the Future
As the first AACR Annual Meeting held in person after the pandemic was coming to a close, the last...
Supporting Tobacco Cessation on World Lung Cancer Day—and Beyond
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 80 to 90 percent of deaths from lung...
Stand Up To Cancer: A Major Force in Cancer Research
We observe May as National Cancer Research Month to celebrate the tremendous advances that have been made in our...
AACR Annual Meeting 2023: Welcoming Global Scholars in Training
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is proud to offer Global Scholar-in-Training Awards (GSITA) to support the career...
Reducing Nicotine in Cigarettes: The Impact on Public Health
The FDA is proposing a cap on nicotine in cigarettes that would reduce the amount by 95%, which could...
AACR Dialogues Spark Important Conversations About Cancer
In the ongoing quest to end cancer health disparities, there’s a simple tool that virtually anyone can use: honest...
Women in Science: AACR Leaders Share Their Stories
In honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a United Nations initiative aimed at narrowing a...
June Is Cancer Immunotherapy Month
In recognition of June as Cancer Immunotherapy Month, organized by our colleagues at the Cancer Research Institute (CRI), the...
AACR Annual Meeting 2019: Leaders Share Highlights and Future Direction
One of the world’s largest cancer research conferences, the AACR Annual Meeting 2019, came to an end with a...
Public Policy and Advocacy in Cancer Research: An Associate Member Guest Post
April symbolizes a progressive time for cancer researchers around the world. From April 1-5, over 20,000 cancer scientists will...
Putting Patients at the Center of Cancer Health Disparities Research
As the virtual 14th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved got underway...
Rethinking DCIS: A Conversation with Dr. Kornelia Polyak
Sometimes referred to as stage 0 breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a noninvasive growth of abnormal...
July Editors’ Picks from AACR Journals
As a monthly staple on this blog, we feature the editors’ picks from the 10 journal issues published by...
Setting the Stage for New Cancer Therapeutics Through Basic Cancer Research
Hugh Gannon, PhD, a recipient of the 2013 Anna D. Barker Fellowship in Basic Cancer Research, is studying p53's...