Category: Cancer Feeds

When Corrie Painter was diagnosed with angiosarcoma, an aggressive cancer in cells that line blood and lymph vessels, in 2010, she was frustrated to find how little information existed about the rare malignancy. As a researcher with a PhD in biochemistry, she also was disheartened that her tumor slides sat in storage where scientists could
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Researchers are looking into urine tests that could detect cancers earlier, including lung, ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal, and more.
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Melissa Davis, PhD, is putting health disparities under a lens. One that can take an aerial view of the discriminatory structural barriers responsible for inequities, observe the potential ramifications of those barriers, and zoom in on each little detail of a tumor cell to see how it is being impacted, all while tracing how an
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Several recent studies, including on presented at the AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities, have examined the ACA’s impact on access to cancer care.
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By Ross Uhrich, DMD, MBA, ARPA-H Program Manager for POSEIDON and NITRO programs, Health Science Futures Mission Office  What if a simple test could save millions of lives by catching cancer early?  This question is at the heart of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funding opportunity announced in August 2024. It’s
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This month, AACR’s journals editors highlighted factors that may reduce pancreatic cancer risk, a new humanized mouse model, and more.
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Understanding pancreatic cancer’s strengths may provide clues to its weaknesses.
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For World Cancer Research Day, AACR convened a panel of experts to discuss how they are helping to drive progress in health equity.
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Researchers are exploring new combinations of therapy, disrupting iron accumulation, and turning tumors hot in attempts to make ovarian cancer less resistant to immunotherapy.
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Recent advances in the genomics of childhood cancer may help inform potential causes and better treatment strategies.
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