AACR Calls for Letters of Intent for a Stand Up To Cancer-Prostate Cancer Foundation Dream TeamOctober 25, 2011PHILADELPHIA Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), along with the American Association for Cancer Re...
Thirteen AACR Members Elected to the Institute of MedicineOctober 25, 2011PHILADELPHIA The American Association for Cancer Research congratulates 13 of its members who are among 65 new members and five foreign associates elected to the Insti...
Key Driver of Metastasis IdentifiedOctober 31, 2011 Protein S100A10 is essential for metastatic growth.Macrophages rely upon S100A10 to power movement of tumor cells to new sites. PHILADELPHIA Scientists at Dalhousie University in Nova Scoti...
Vaccine for Metastatic Breast, Ovarian Cancer Shows PromiseNovember 8, 2011 Vaccine is a recombinant poxviral compound.One patient with metastatic breast cancer had a sustained complete response.PHILADELPHIA Treatment with a recombinant poxv...
Ruling Blocking Graphic Cigarette Health Warnings Presents Major Setback for Public HealthNovember 9, 2011WASHINGTON, D.C. The American Association for Cancer Research strongly opposes the recent federal ruling that blocks implementation of...
AACR Urges Congress to Safeguard Funding for FDA, Cites 35 Drug Approvals in 2011 as Validation of Agency's EffectivenessNovember 10, 2011SAN FRANCISCO Underscoring the importance of a fully funded U.S. Food and Drug Administration in advanc...
Researchers Develop More Effective Way to Discover and Test Potential Cancer DrugsNovember 13, 2011Phenotypic platform better predicts cancer drug effectiveness from the lab to actual tumors.Platform reduces time and money spent on drugs tha...
Epigenetic Therapy Shows Promise in Hard-to-treat Lung CancerNovember 9, 2011 Therapy extended median survival to 6.4 months. Two patients are alive four years after start of epigenetic treatment.PHILADELPHIA Patients with recurrent metastat...
Benefit of Novel Drug in Breast Cancer Seen in Blood Within Weeks November 13, 2011 HDAC inhibitor first to show benefit in a controlled study in breast cancer. Protein lysine acetylation linked to longer disease-free survival. Study shows c...
Signaling Pathway Linked to Inflammatory Breast Cancer May Drive Disease MetastasisNovember 13, 2011 Findings represent first evidence of ALK activity in inflammatory breast cancer.Data emphasize importance of proteins and enzymes to define...
