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American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting

Interviews and expert commentary from AACR — study authors and key opinion leaders discuss the findings and their clinical implications.

Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia have Remissions with “Logic Gated”  Off-the-Shelf Natural Killer Cell Therapy

Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia have Remissions with “Logic Gated”  Off-the-Shelf Natural Killer Cell Therapy

An Interview with: Stephen Strickland, Jr. MD MSCI, Director, Leukemia Research; Executive Chair, Leukemia Research Committee, Sarah Cannon Research Instiute, Nashville, Tennessee USA CHICAGO – Severa

8 May 2025
14 min
More Breast Cancer Cases in Younger Women since 2010 But Fewer Deaths

More Breast Cancer Cases in Younger Women since 2010 But Fewer Deaths

An interview with: Adetunji T. Toriola, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine and Siteman Cancer Ce

7 May 2025
15 min
Fast, Accurate Artificial Intelligence Method to Diagnose and Classify Pediatric Sarcoma Anywhere

Fast, Accurate Artificial Intelligence Method to Diagnose and Classify Pediatric Sarcoma Anywhere

An interview with: Adam Thiesen, PhD Candidate, UConn Health, University of Connecticut and the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington,  CT And with: Jayesh Desai MD, Medical Oncologist,

6 May 2025
16 min
EGFR-Sparing Anti-HER2 Drug Benefits Patients with Advanced HER2-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

EGFR-Sparing Anti-HER2 Drug Benefits Patients with Advanced HER2-Mutated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

An interview with: John V Heymach MD PhD, Professor and Chair of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Ruth Legett Jones Distinguished Chair, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

4 May 2025
13 min
Neoadjuvant PD-1 Blockade Enables Patients with Mismatch Repair Deficient Colorectal Cancers to Avoid Surgery

Neoadjuvant PD-1 Blockade Enables Patients with Mismatch Repair Deficient Colorectal Cancers to Avoid Surgery

An interview with: Andrea Cercek MD, Gastrointestinal Cancer Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York And: Ryan B Corcoran MD PhD, Director of the GI Cancer Program, Massac

3 May 2025
14 min
Topical BRAF-inhibiting Gel Controls Acneiform Rash in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Treated with EGFR-inhibition

Topical BRAF-inhibiting Gel Controls Acneiform Rash in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Treated with EGFR-inhibition

An interview with: Anisha B Patel MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Division of Internal Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX CHICAGO, USA—Acneiform rash toxicities caused by anti- ep

2 May 2025
9 min
RAS Inhibitor Zoldonrasib Brings Clinical Benefit in Patients with G12D Mutated Non-Small Cell Advanced Lung Cancer

RAS Inhibitor Zoldonrasib Brings Clinical Benefit in Patients with G12D Mutated Non-Small Cell Advanced Lung Cancer

An interview with: Kathryn C Arbour MD, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA And: Ryan B Corcoran MD PhD, Massachusetts General Cancer Center, Associate Pr

30 April 2025
12 min
Two Checkpoint Inhibitors in One Bispecific Molecule Improved Survival in Patients with High-Risk Gastric Cancer

Two Checkpoint Inhibitors in One Bispecific Molecule Improved Survival in Patients with High-Risk Gastric Cancer

An interview with: Jiafu Ji MD PhD DrPH FRCS, Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Professor and Chief, Gastrointestinal Cancer Center, Peking University Cancer Hospital, Beijing Institut

23 April 2025
10 min
Exosome Liquid Biopsy for Earliest Pancreatic Cancer Detection

Exosome Liquid Biopsy for Earliest Pancreatic Cancer Detection

An interview with: Ajay Goel PhD, Chair of the Molecular Diagnostics and Experimental Therapeutics Department, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Los Angeles California.  SAN DIEGO—The prospect

10 April 2025
13 min
Long Remissions with Bispecific T-cell Engager Antibody Therapy for Patients with Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

Long Remissions with Bispecific T-cell Engager Antibody Therapy for Patients with Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

An interview with: Sundar Jagannath MBBS, Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Director of the Center of Excellence for Multiple Myeloma, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New

9 April 2025
16 min
Olivier Lantz MD PhD; AACR 2024: Personalized Vaccine Brought Durable Immune Responses and Fewer Relapses in Head and Neck Cancers

Olivier Lantz MD PhD; AACR 2024: Personalized Vaccine Brought Durable Immune Responses and Fewer Relapses in Head and Neck Cancers

An interview with: Olivier Lantz MD PhD, Head of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Institut Curie, Paris, France PARIS, France—A clinical trial using a personalized therapeutic vaccine, that

9 April 2025
14 min
Patients with Desmoplastic Melanoma Were Exceptional Responders to Single Agent Pembrolizumab

Patients with Desmoplastic Melanoma Were Exceptional Responders to Single Agent Pembrolizumab

Audio Journal of Oncology Patients with Desmoplastic Melanoma Were Exceptional Responders to Single Agent Pembrolizumab LOS ANGELES, CA—Single agent immunotherapy with the anti-programmed death-1 (PD-

11 March 2025
14 min
AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY—High Response Rates in Lung Cancer from Next Generation ROS1 Inhibitor 

AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY—High Response Rates in Lung Cancer from Next Generation ROS1 Inhibitor 

An interview with: Byoung Chul Cho MD PhD, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, from the Yonsei Cancer Center at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. BARCELONA, Spain—A “next gen

6 January 2023
12 min
Maria Reig MD PhD; ENA 2022 BARCELONA: AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY: ”New Molecular Drug has Clinical Activity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Maria Reig MD PhD; ENA 2022 BARCELONA: AUDIO JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY: ”New Molecular Drug has Clinical Activity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

New Molecular Drug has Clinical Activity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Interview with: Maria Reig MD PhD, Professor and Head of the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Unit, Hospital Clinic Barcelona a

11 November 2022
18 min
BRCA-deficient cancers respond to combination of two experimental drugs

BRCA-deficient cancers respond to combination of two experimental drugs

WASHINGTON DC—Doctors taking the unusual step of combining two experimental drugs to treat cancers in patients who have mutated BRCA — the gene conferring susceptibility to breast, ovarian and some ot

24 April 2013
Treatment “holidays” to overcome resistance in advanced melanoma?

Treatment “holidays” to overcome resistance in advanced melanoma?

WASHINGTON DC—Laboratory evidence that giving patients intermittent rather than continuous treatment with cancer drugs could help them overcome drug resistance in cancers such as melanoma was presente

24 April 2013
Gene expression and molecular pathways guide head and neck cancer therapies

Gene expression and molecular pathways guide head and neck cancer therapies

WASHINGTON DC—Gene expression and molecular pathways in head and neck cancer have been identified with reference to The Cancer Genome Atlas in research presented at the American Association for Cancer

24 April 2013
Treating HER 2 positive metastatic breast cancer without chemotherapy?

Treating HER 2 positive metastatic breast cancer without chemotherapy?

WASHINGTON DC—Patients with metastatic breast cancer who are HER-2 positive could potentially be treated with the anti-HER-2 conjugated drug, trastuzumab-emtansine (T-DM1), alone — without needing to

9 April 2013
Two-step immunotherapy brings promise in advanced ovarian cancer

Two-step immunotherapy brings promise in advanced ovarian cancer

WASHINGTON DC—A new type of immunotherapy has helped patients with advanced ovarian cancer who had no other therapeutic options. In a study reported to the 2013 conference of the American Association

8 April 2013
Rare inherited skin cancer is controlled by inhibiting the hedgehog pathway

Rare inherited skin cancer is controlled by inhibiting the hedgehog pathway

ORLANDO—A rare inherited form of skin cancer — basal cell nevus syndrome — has been controlled by an inhibitor of the “hedgehog” molecular pathway in a study reported to the American Assoc

10 April 2011
Blocking two molecular pathways simultaneously gives better anti-tumour activity

Blocking two molecular pathways simultaneously gives better anti-tumour activity

ORLANDO—Evidence that cancer could be controlled more effectively by blocking two molecular pathways simultaneously was reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Orlan

10 April 2011
KRAS Mutation: Powerful Molecular Predictor of Cetuximab Response in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

KRAS Mutation: Powerful Molecular Predictor of Cetuximab Response in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Pierre Laurent-Puig Bill Hait REFERENCE: ABSTRACT: 5671, American Association for Cancer Research, April 14-18, 2007, Los Angeles PIERRE LAURENT-PUIG, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris COMMEN

31 August 2007
Virus Plus Cytokine Fight Primary and Metastatic Cancer

Virus Plus Cytokine Fight Primary and Metastatic Cancer

Paul Fisher REFERENCE: Meet the Professor Session, AACR 2007, Los Angeles PAUL FISHER, Columbia University, New York Patients with cancer could soon be treated with adenoviruses capable of infecting b

15 August 2007
Bivalent Vaccine for HPV: Interim Phases III Data Show High Efficacy

Bivalent Vaccine for HPV: Interim Phases III Data Show High Efficacy

Jorma Paavonen REFERENCE: Lancet 369:2161-2170, 2007 JORMA PAAVONEN, University of Helsinki High efficacy of the bivalent vaccine for human papillomavirus is reported in the Lancet by an international

2 August 2007
Audio Journal of Oncology in Advance – May 15th, 2007 – reporting from: American Association for Cancer Research,  April 14-18, 2007,  Los Angeles, CA

Audio Journal of Oncology in Advance – May 15th, 2007 – reporting from: American Association for Cancer Research, April 14-18, 2007, Los Angeles, CA

Alberto Sobrero Cetuximab With Irinotecan: Phase III Study Shows Benefit in Patients with Oxaliplatin-Refractory Colorectal Cancer REFERENCE: ABSTRACT LB-2; AACR 2007, Los Angeles, Plenary Session ALB

16 May 2007
Audio Journal of Oncology in Advance – May 1st, 2007 – reporting from: American Association for Cancer Research 14-18 April, 2007 Los Angeles

Audio Journal of Oncology in Advance – May 1st, 2007 – reporting from: American Association for Cancer Research 14-18 April, 2007 Los Angeles

Fritz Schröder Opportunistic Prostate Screening May Not Save Lives! REFERENCE: AACR 2007, Los Angeles FRITZ SCHRÖDER, Erasmus University, Rotterdam Though elective screening appears to have reduced

2 May 2007