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Society Grantee's work in Metastasis Research honored with award for outstanding achievement
American Cancer Society grantee Yibin Kang, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University , has been recognized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) with its 32nd Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 in Chicago. This award honors an investigator younger than 40 for meritorious achievements in the field of cancer research.
Dr. Kang, recipient of an American Cancer Society grant for ... Read more
NEW FOURTH EDITION OF THE TOBACCO ATLAS RELEASED AT WORLD CONFERENCE ON TOBACCO OR HEALTH
Michael Eriksen, Sc.D., and Hana Ross, Ph.D., authors of The Tobacco Atlas, 4th Ed., discuss the importance of this publication. Please visit http://www.tobaccoatlas.org to access and get more information about this publication. Click here to access other "Behind the Science" videos.
SOCIETY EPIDEMIOLOGIST HOST CALLE/RODRIQUEZ MEMORIAL EXPERT ROUNDTABLE: INTEGRATING PATHOLOGICAL MATERIALS INTO EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES
On February 29th, 2012, scientists from the Society’s Epidemiology Research Program hosted the Calle/Rodriguez Memorial Expert Roundtable, entitled Integrating Pathological Materials into Epidemiologic Studies. This one-day meeting at the Society’s National Home Office in Atlanta brought together leading pathologists, basic scientists, and epidemiologists from around the United States to share their expertise and discuss cancer sites for tumor block collection, protocols for specimen sampling (e.g. slides, tissue microarrays) and preparation, current and future plans for specific markers, and hypotheses that can be addressed uniquely or in collaboration with other cohorts.
The collection of tumor specimens from the Society's Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort participants allows researchers to classify site-specific cancers based on the molecular characteristics of the tumor. This classification should reduce “noise” in the data, and provide a clearer picture of the risk factors for specific cancer subtypes. Prior to the meeting, the Society's epidemiologists had already begun to collect tumor specimens from participants who developed colorectal or breast cancer. Based on the discussion at the meeting, new efforts are underway to collect specimens from participants who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma or leukemia, and others are being considered.
With these enhancements, the datasets resulting from the Cancer Prevention Studies become increasingly invaluable tools for identifying the causes of cancer and reducing the cancer burden.
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