AACR Cancer Progress Report 2022: Patient Stories Chronicle Lifesaving Innovations in Cancer Science
The annual AACR report on cancer progress brings good news about advances made in cancer research and treatment.
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The groundbreaking researcher studies factors that can lead to racial and ethnic health disparities. This includes her research on heritable mutations that lead to cancer…
AACR journals and scientific meetings feature groundbreaking cancer research.
Reflecting the interplay among all aspects of cancer research, the AACR Annual Meeting 2022 featured the theme “Decoding Cancer Complexity, Integrating Science, Transforming Patient Outcomes.”…
While in medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1980s, Charles L. Sawyers’ eyes were opened to the knowledge that could be…
In 2013, Charles Sawyers, MD, had the idea that cancer institutions should pool their patients’ clinical sequencing data to speed up cancer research. Now, Dr.…
The achievements, negative impacts, challenges, improvements in cancer care, and lessons learned in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic are detailed in the AACR Report…
In 1970, there were a small number of effective cancer treatments and a limited knowledge of cancer biology and prevention strategies. Researchers, clinicians, cancer survivors,…
John D. Carpten, PhD, was staring at data on a computer screen at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1995. Dr.…
Two Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (FAACR) Academy—one of them a member of the AACR Board of Directors—were among three researchers awarded…