Our Research Programs

The American Cancer Society is helping people with lung cancer today, in every community, and is working tirelessly to find cures to end the disease tomorrow. The Society’s research program has played a role in many of the advances that save lives from lung cancer today, and is relentlessly pursuing the answers that will save even more lives in the future. See examples of the current research we conduct and fund.

Researchers are learning that more genes than BRCA1 are linked with triple-negative breast cancer, which is very hard to treat. Recently, in a study led by Fergus J. Couch, PhD, 4 more genes with inherited mutations were linked to a highly increased risk for TNBC. Couch and his team used multigene panel testing to check multiple genes simultaneously. This picture is an example of the kind of gel images researchers use to understand the order, or sequence, of genes or to look for mutations in genes.