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2 weeks ago | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
How can we better map the evolution of cancer to help improve precision therapy? What role does age play in the development of cancer? What can be learned from tissues that rarely get cancer? What understudied targets are worth studying? These are among the questions that fascinate the early-career researchers selected as the 2025 NextGen Stars by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
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1 month ago | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
Originally founded in 1887, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has not only become a key component of medical research in the United States, but one of the foremost research centers in the world. Between 2010 and 2019, 354 out of the 356 therapeutics approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) involved research that was at least in part funded by the NIH.
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2 months ago | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
If Eddie and Alex Van Halen hadn’t asked David Lee Roth to join their band so they wouldn’t have to keep renting his PA system, would we have Van Halen? If Larry Mullen, Jr., never posted a note on his high school bulletin board looking for band members, would he have ever met Paul Hewson (Bono), David Evans (The Edge), and Adam Clayton and formed U2? If Roger Waters and Nick Mason weren’t both studying architecture in London, would we have Pink Floyd?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius |Emma Quinn
Faithanne Hill is not your typical Trinidadian. For one, she loves the beach, which may sound obvious considering she lives on an island, but that is not the case for everyone in Trinidad. “The beach is always there—it never goes away—so most people only go on special occasions or when there’s a holiday,” explained Faith (as she likes to be called). “But I make it a point of going.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius |Emma Quinn
Researchers explain how precision medicine, immunotherapy, AI, treating blood cancers, and addressing cancer disparities may advance in 2025.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
Which one do you think is higher each year in the United States: alcohol-related traffic fatalities or alcohol-related cancer deaths? It may surprise you to learn that the answer is alcohol-related cancer deaths with about 20,000 each year, compared with 13,500 traffic fatalities connected to alcohol. Fewer than half of Americans are even aware that the consumption of alcohol can increase cancer risk, according to the AACR Cancer Progress Report 2024.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
In Ancient Greek legends, Sybil was a name bestowed upon prophetesses who were thought capable of predicting the future. Today, can artificial intelligence help create a modern-day Sybil capable of predicting future cases of lung cancer? That was just one of the questions raised at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Industry Roundtable 2024, held October 8-9 in Philadelphia.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
It’s noninvasive … it’s easy to collect … it’s urine tests! The advantages that come with being able to detect signs of cancer from urine led Philip Abbosh, MD, PhD, of Fox Chase Cancer Center, to lightheartedly compare this form of liquid biopsy to Superman during a session at the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Bladder Cancer: Transforming the Field, held May 17-20. “I think, as do many others, urine tests will transform the way we take care of patients clinically,” Abbosh said.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
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 individual’s genetic background also plays a role.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
aacr.org | Andrew Matthius
Has the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved access to care for cancer patients? It is a question several researchers have asked and attempted to answer in recent years, including Sriya Kudaravalli, a third-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who presented results from a study at the 17th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held September 21-24.
