American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

For decades, federal investment in cancer disparities research has helped identify factors that contribute to poorer outcomes among medically underserved populations in the United States and has informed strategies to improve prevention, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The

Some communities have higher death rates from early-onset colorectal cancer than others. Why is this the case?

This was a question that Justin Xavier Moore, PhD, MPH, of the University of Kentucky, was left asking after he and his colleagues

By Gopal Iyer, MBBS (Hons), PhD, and Choon Kiat Ong, PhD, cochairs of the Frontiers in Cancer Science 2026 conference

A cancer’s history is written in its genome. Its surroundings influence how it grows. And its response to treatment can change over time. Understanding how these pieces fit together is one of the central challenges facing cancer re...

When Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, oncologists quoted in the media reports indicated that he may face a rather promising prognosis, largely because the cancer was detected early. The fact that such a statement can be made about lung c...

Exactly one month after the landmark approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the RAS inhibitor daraxonrasib (Rasonque) for the treatment of