AACR Chief Scientific Advisor William Hait forecasts what cancer prevention, detection, and interception will look like in 2026, including the use of AI‑powered scans and smarter blood tests to detect cancer sooner.
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The AACR Pediatric Cancer Progress Report 2025 highlights the remarkable progress against childhood cancers driven by discoveries across the basic, translational, clinical, and population sciences.
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