ACS Research Highlights

• Breast Cancer Research Highlights
  • Risk Factors & Prevention Breast Cancer Studies
    • Triggering Signals of BRCA1 Breast Cancer (K Kessenbrock)
    • Testing Diverse Groups Finds New Breast Cancer Genes (L Teras)
    • Black Women & Genetic Testing (J Palmer)
    • Women 65+ & Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer Risk (L Teras)
    • High-Risk Genes and Screening (A Patel)
    • New Risk Calculation May Affect Breast Cancer Screening (L Teras)
    • Black Men and Breast Cancer (H Sung)
  • Screening & Early Detection Breast Cancer Studies
    • Mammograms Increase After COVID-19 Pandemic (P Bandi)
    • Access to Digital Mammography (D Wiese)
    • Screening & Genetic Risks (J Yeh)
    • CHC & Mammography (J Star)
  • Treatment & Reducing Metastasis Breast Cancer Studies
    • AI Tool Improves Breast Cancer Prognosis Accuracy
    • Platelets May Help Breast Cancer Spread (E Battinelli)
    • Natural Killer Cells & TNBC (R. Chakrabarti)
    • Improving Chemotherapy (O Sahin)
    • Combo Treatment for TNBC (K Varley)
    • Treatments Attack Cell Division (A Holland)
    • ER+ Treatment in Mice (P Kenny)
    • Blood DNA Monitors Metastasis Treatment (H P Ji)
    • PTK6 Gene as Treatment Target (H Irie)
    • Time-Lapse Cell Movies (S Spencer)
    • 3D Mini Breast Tumors May Help ID New Cancer Treatments
  • Survivorship Breast Cancer Studies
    • Obesity-related Cancer Risks (C Bodelon)
    • ID of Biomarkers and Survivors’ QofL (S Patel)
    • Excess Weight Shortens Life (M Gaudet)
    • Poverty and Breast Cancer Survivors (K Kenzik)
    • Quality of Care (J Tsui)
    • Survivors' Risk of New Cancers (H Sung)
• Cancer Disparities ACS Research Highlights
  • Lonely Cancer Survivors (H Lee, PhD)
  • How to Engage Black Women in Research (L. McCullough)
  • County Disparities in Mortality & Poverty Levels (D. Wiese)
  • Exercise & Sitting Time (E. Rees-Punia)
  • The State of Cancer Disparities, 2023 (F. Islami)
  • Cancer Risk Factors in LGBTQ Populations (B. Charlton)
  • CPS-3 Disparities Studies
  • Cancer Disparities in the US, 2021 (F. Islami)
  • Housing Assistance and Mammograms (H Lee)
  • Clinical Trial Treatment Cost App (L Hamel)
  • Patients Health Insurance Tool (M. Politi)
  • Breast Cancer Treatment in Ethiopia (A. Jemal)
  • Better Survival Requires Better Insurance (J Zhao)
  • Medicaid Eligibility Limits (J Zhao)
• Childhood Cancer Research Highlights
  • Financial Hardship Persists After Childhood Cancer
  • New Treatment for Neuroblastoma (A Heczey)
  • Oncogenic Fusions AML (S Meshinchi)
  • Genetic Risks (L Teras)
  • New Medulloblastoma Drugs (J Rodriguez-Blanco)
  • Potential New Hope for MLL (J Grembecka)
  • Increase in Brain Tumor Diagnosis (K Miller)
  • Longer Life Expectancy for Survivors (J Yeh)
  • Potential Target for New Osteosarcoma Drugs (C Benavente)
  • At-Home Chemo for Children with HR ALL (L Ranney)
  • Childhood Cancer Research Landscape Report
• Colorectal Cancer Research Highlights
  • Risk Factors & Prevention Colorectal Studies
    • Exercise and All Types of CRC (C. Um)
    • Daily Aspirin May Help Prevent Colorectal Cancer (A. Peoples)
    • Genes Strengthen the Protective Effects of Fruit and Fiber (C. Um)
    • Link Between Gluten and Colorectal Cancer (C. Um)
    • GLP-1s and Risk of Colorectal Cancer (R. Xu)
  • Screening & Early Detection Colorectal Cancer Studies
    • Home Testing Rose During Pandemic (J Star)
    • Screening People Ages 45-49 (J Star)
    • Doctors Didn't Recommend Screening (J. Baeker Bispo)
    • Insurance, Screening, and Unemployment (S Fedewa)
    • COVID-19 Highlighted Ways to Improve Screening (J. Nodora)
  • Treatment Colorectal Cancer Studies
    • Diet & CIPN Risk (S. Compton)
    • Spatial Map Intestines (J Hickey)
    • Tumor-Infiltrating Neutrophils (R. Sumagin)
    • New Epigenetic Target (K Rai)
    • Extra Chromosomes (Aneuploidy) Effect on Cancer (J. Sheltzer)
    • Discovery of a New Biomarker Is the First Step to New Treatment (C. Maher)
    • Designer Virus Targets and Kills CRC Cells in Mice (S. Warner)
    • Tiny Sensor in Mice May Find Cancer That's Trying to Spread (L. Hao)
    • Targeting a Protein “Turned on” by Mistake (N. Gao)
  • Survivorship Colorectal Cancer Studies
    • Vitamins and Survival (J. Figueiredo and C. Um)
    • Low Survival Rates Sub-Saharan Africa (A. Jemal)
    • Aspirin and Colorectal Cancer Survival (P. Campbell)
    • Clinical Trial to Keep Survivors Exercising (H. Leach)
• Healthy Eating & Active Living Research Highlights
  • Exercise Reduces Pain for People with Cancer (M. Masters)
  • Healthy Lifestyle After Obesity-Related Cancer (Y. Wang)
  • Keto Molecule & Colorectal Cancer (M Levy)
  • Availability of Healthy Food (L Tussing-Humphreys)
  • 45 Min/Day of Physical Activity (A Minihan)
  • Fewer than 10K Steps/Day (A Patel)
  • Yogurt & Cheese & ER- Breast Cancer (M McCullough)
  • Stage 2 Clinical Trials for New Endometrial Cancer Drug (V Bae-Jump)
  • Hard-to-Starve Pancreatic Cancer Cells (N Kalaany)
  • Coffee Risks for Colorectal Cancer (C Um)
  • Food Parasite & Brain Cancer Risk (J Hodge)
  • Exercise & Quality of Life in Older Survivors (E Rees-Punia)
  • 21 Metabolites Linked with Breast Cancer (Y Wang)
  • Replacing Sitting May Affect Weight (E Rees-Punia)
  • CPS-3 Researchers Ask What People Eat and Check Urine Samples (Y Wang)
  • Video Games Motivate Exercise? (E. Lyons)
  • Food Choices and Colon Cancer Risk (P. Chandler)
  • Race, Exercise & Breast Cancer (C. Dallal)
  • Diet with Colorectal Cancer (M. Guinter)
• Lung Cancer Research Highlights
  • Tobacco Control Averts Lung Cancer Deaths (F Islami)
  • New Genes ID'd About Quitting Smoking (A Lori)
  • Stopping Smoking Earlier in Life (F Islami)
  • Most with Lung Cancer Smoked (A Jemal)
  • Cancer Deaths from Smoking (F Islami)
  • E-Cig Use Ages 18 to 29 (P. Bandi)
  • Biomarkers May Improve Prediction (Y Wang)
  • Furthering Lung Cancer Screening & Equity (S Fedewa)
  • Mapping Mitochondria's “Dance” (D. Shackleford)
  • Kickstart NSCLCs Clinical Trials (L. Eichner)
  • Precision Therapies for NSCLC (P Jänne)
  • Mouse Lung Organoids for Research (C Kim)
  • Metabolic Differences as New Drug Targets (A Marcus)
  • Lung Cancer Surgery Disparities (A Jemal)
  • BRG1-Deficient Lung Cancers (C Kim)
  • Quality of Life for Lung Cancer Survivors (J Temel)
  • Yoga for Couples with Lung Cancer (K Milbury)
• Ovarian Cancer Research Highlights
  • CPS-II & CPS-3 Inform About Risks of Ovarian Cancer
  • Machine Learning & Glowing Nanosensors (D Heller)
  • Ovarian Cancer May Start in Fallopian Tube Cells (K Lawrenson)
  • New Gene Linked with Deadliest Type (C Han)
  • Gene-Testing Tools May Personalize Care (A Sood)
  • Chromosome-Hoarding Ovarian Cancer Cells & Treatment (J Sheltzer)
  • Nanoparticles as Drug Delivery for Metastases (X Lu)
  • Turning Off 2 Proteins to Slow HGSC (P Kreeger)
  • Targeted Light Therapy in Mice (M Bai)
  • Nanoparticles, CAR T, and CRISPR (M Stephan)
  • Endometriosis & Ovarian Cancer in Mice (M Wilson)
  • Ovarian Cancer Special Section
• Prostate Cancer Research Highlights
  • Risk Factors & Prevention Prostate Cancer Studies
    • Grains May Lower Advanced Prostate Cancer Risk (Y Wang)
    • Prostate Cancer and Neighborhood Stress
    • "Forever Chemicals" Not Linked with Prostate Cancer in Older Men
  • Screening & Early Detection Prostate Cancer Studies
    • PSA Screening After COVID-19 (P Bandi)
    • Urine Test May ID Deadly Prostate Cancers (A. Chinnaiyan)
    • 5 Years After Recommending Against Routine PSA Tests (A Jemal)
  • Treatment Prostate Cancer Studies
    • 2 New Drug Pathways to EZH2 (Q Cao)
    • Proton Beam Therapy (L Nogueira)
    • Prostatectomy for Black Men Who Also Have Obesity (A Vidal)
    • Medicaid Alone Doesn't Improve Prostate Cancer Care (C Filson)
    • New Immunotherapy for PC Bone Mets (L Cook)
    • Heart Medicines May Spur Future Prostate Treatments (I Schlaepfer)
  • Survivorship Prostate Cancer Studies
    • Survivors Who Eat More Chicken and Less Meat (Y Wang)
    • Weight Gain After Diagnosis (Y Wang)
    • Genetic Tool for Prostate Cancer in Blacks (K Yamoah)
• Skin Cancer ACS Research Highlights
  • UV Exposure, Melanoma, & Dark Skin Types (A. Adamson)
  • Melanoma and Lipid Droplets (R. White)
  • Zebrafish and Acral Melanoma (R. White)
  • T-Cell Lymphoma and PD1 (J. Choi)
  • Potential New Drug (C. Crews)
  • Virus & Merkel Cell Skin Cancer (R. Wang)
  • Non-Genetic Drug Resistance (S. Spencer)
  • Hijacking the Body's Sugar (R. Wang)
  • Telling about High Risk (P. Kanetsky)
  • Brain Metastasis and Alzheimer’s (E. Hernando)
  • Exhausted Melanoma "Killer" Cells (W. Cui)