Leading Cancer Experts Comment on the Cancer Initiative in the State of the Union Address
Editor’s Note: Several prominent American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) leaders have shared their reactions to President Obama’s Jan....
Editor’s Note: Several prominent American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) leaders have shared their reactions to President Obama’s Jan....
As Kidney Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close, Scott M. Welford, PhD, the 2014 recipient of the Kure...
The new year brings a new chapter in the holy book of cancer biology with the publication in the...
At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), we know that our mission to prevent and cure all cancers must encompass all...
In the coming months, we will share posts from advocates who participated in the AACR’s Scientist↔Survivor Program at the...
When creating anything new, one must ask the question, “will others use it?” A driving force behind the creation...
One year, to the day, after winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on the genetic...
AACR Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange, or GENIE for short, has released one of the largest fully public...
Epithelial ovarian cancer is by far the most common ovarian cancer subtype, accounting for 90 percent of ovarian cancers. The...
Guest post by Hisham Hamadeh, PhD, and Shawn M. Sweeney, PhD Imagine a world where many of the decisions...
Excitement and emotion ran high Sunday morning as Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc), chief executive officer of the American...
The average person may not relish the idea of sitting through a six-hour documentary about cancer. However, thanks to...
Twenty-three pairs of chromosomes make up the human genome of normal cells. But in 1965, researchers observed that in...
With President Joseph R. Biden in the White House, the United States may be poised to make a major...
Cancer is a very complex disease. Cancer cells often have the ability to rewire some of their functions to survive in harsh...
Gregory J. Aune, MD, PhD, is a renowned pediatric oncologist with a powerful story. At age 16, he was...
A team of researchers from Australia has shown that an optical fiber-tip probe that can detect the pH of...
Members of the AACR Project GENIE consortium presented their first analyses of the data during the Pan-Cancer Genomic Analysis...
FDA approvals issued in third quarter 2023 included a new treatment for prostate cancer harboring BRCA mutations, two new...
This year alone, an estimated 1.8 million people will hear their doctor say they have cancer. The individual impact...
This month, the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) marks its 20th anniversary. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the...
Due to advances in screening and treatment, the survival rate for patients with breast cancer has increased in recent decades. However, this progress...
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, co-director of the pediatric hematologic malignancy program and associate professor of pediatrics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
Guest Post by Lee Gibbs Associate member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and doctoral candidate at the...
When I started my postdoc at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in May 2016, I was thrilled to...
When the hottest minds in cancer genomics meet the hottest minds in computational and systems biology, you can rest...
Provision of robust, sustained, and predictable research funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) fuels cancer prevention, detection,...
As the spring weather encourages the planting of flowers, vegetables, and herbs, even careful gardeners may see weeds creeping...
The concept of using vaccination to eradicate cancer by instructing the immune system to eliminate malignant cells has been...
The concept of body mass index, or BMI, was introduced in the 19th century by the Belgian statistician Adolphe...