Addressing Advocacy at the Bench at The Science of Cancer Health Disparities 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines: Patient Advocates as Trusted Sources of Information This session will address the topic of mistrust of health...
COVID-19 Vaccines: Patient Advocates as Trusted Sources of Information This session will address the topic of mistrust of health...
Lung cancer is surrounded by many misconceptions. We invited two lung cancer survivors to discuss the stigmas surrounding a...
AACR Virtual Patient Advocate Forum October 1, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has sickened more than 22.8 million people globally...
COVID-19 Legislation and Appropriations Update House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Roy Blunt and NCI Director Ned Sharpless Featured at...
Age: 33 Los Angeles, California For Allyson Pile, it was scary to receive an advanced-stage cancer diagnosis at the...
Abstract submission deadline is November 16, 2023. Patient advocate abstracts should feature studies led by patient advocates or co-led...
Mission and Purposes The mission of the AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group is to advance cancer diagnostic, therapeutic, and prevention strategies by fostering a fundamental understanding of cancer...
Recent years have been marked by remarkable scientific progress—particularly in cancer research—but also by a decline trust in the...
Age 51Mexico City, Mexico In 2015, Federico de Armas Heinzen felt a swollen lymph node under his right arm...
COVID-19 has significantly changed everyone’s life, especially patients with cancer. We invited two patient advocates to discuss COVD-19 and...
AACR was honored to showcase patient advocate posters at the 15th Annual Conference on the Science of Cancer Health...
June 17-23, 2021, is National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week. We invited Col. (Ret,) James (Jim) Williams and with...
June 17-23, 2021 is National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week. Black families are among the most vulnerable and hardest...
Age 33Arlington, Texas During Rachel Orth’s annual well-woman checkup in November 2020, a mass was discovered on her ovary....
Triple negative breast cancer carries a stigma as more difficult to treat than any other breast cancer types. We...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022Washington, D.C. Luminaries from across the cancer research community gathered at the National Portrait Gallery in...
The following narrative describes over 100 years of AACR history. From the simple beginning of a few scientists gathering...
To ensure your dollars have maximum impact, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is a proud charity partner...
June is National Cancer Survivor Month. More than 18 million people in the United States are cancer survivors who...
AACR Virtual Patient Advocate Forum Precision Oncology Advances in 2020: Looking Ahead to 2021 February 16, 2021 The COVID-19...
Age 68Sacramento, California Since his diagnosis with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in January 2010, life for Larry Saltzman, a board-certified...
Age 55Joliet, Illinois Wenora Johnson, 55, knows the importance of routine cancer screening and preventive measures all too well....
U.S. Senator for MinnesotaAge 61 I would like first of all to thank the researchers at the American Association...
A collaboration between FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence and the American Association for Cancer Research NEW! Episode 12-Tebentafusp-tebn Episode...
This is an uncertain time for everyone around the world, including those of us working in the field of...
Congressional Briefing on HPV-Related Cancers Presented by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Moffitt Cancer Center and Biden...
For all of the incredible breadth of cancer research that the AACR supports, we draw inspiration from the countless...
The year 2022 will be remembered as the time when the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic began to...
The AACR Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington, D.C., April 1-5, will showcase the best cancer science and...