Leading Discoveries
AACR President Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR, is focused on improving cancer clinical trials to enhance the development of the next generation of cancer therapeutics to benefit patients.
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AACR President Patricia M. LoRusso, DO, PhD (hc), FAACR, is focused on improving cancer clinical trials to enhance the development of the next generation of cancer therapeutics to benefit patients.
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Cancer is not a single disease, but rather a collection of diseases all characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells.
Learn MoreTargeting “Undruggable” Proteins That Drive Cancer: AACR grantee Raymond E. Moellering, PhD, of the University of Chicago, uses chemistry to build “molecules that can go after undruggable protein targets” to treat cancers.
Learn MoreNearly 235,000 people living in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year. Learn about prevention, screening, and treatment options for lung cancer.
Learn MoreResearch-driven advances in our understanding of the immune system invigorated the field of cancer immunology and established immunotherapy as the fifth pillar of cancer medicine.
Read the ReportRead about recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals of products for cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Learn MoreYour donation to the American Association for Cancer Research will help fund early-career investigators. Fund the future of cancer research today.
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The AACR Cancer Progress Report 2024 highlights research-driven advances against the collection of often devastating diseases we call cancer.
Learn MoreThe AACR and its more than 58,000 members worldwide are advancing a scientifically bold agenda against the collection of diseases we call cancer.
Learn MoreDr. LoRusso, AACR President 2024-2025, explains that basic cancer research is essential to accelerating advances in cancer science and medicine.
Learn Morepercent decrease of the overall age-adjusted cancer death rate in the U.S. from 1991 to 2021
Learn Moretherapeutics were approved for new or expanded uses by the FDA from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024
Learn Moremillion cancer survivors in the U.S. are living with, through, and beyond their disease thanks to research
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