AACR Announces Annual Meeting 2012 Press Conference Schedule

AACR Announces Annual Meeting 2012 Press Conference Schedule:

PHILADELPHIA — The American Association for Cancer Research is pleased to announce the official press conference schedule for the AACR Annual Meeting 2012, held in Chicago, Ill. from March 31 – April 4.
Press conferences will be held at the Hyatt McCormick Conference Center, which is adjacent to the McCormick Place Conference Center. Attendance is limited to registered members of the media and pre-approved guests.

AACR-SU2C (Stand Up To Cancer) Clinical Trials Finder

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) encourage you to use the AACR-SU2C Clinical Trials Finder, a free and confidential cancer clinical trials matching and referral service. You may start your search online (see below).

How we can help?
The Clinical Trials Finder is designed to help you and your doctor quickly identify studies that match your specific diagnosis, stage and treatment history. New trials are added or updated every day, therefore we encourage you to search for new matches every time you have to make a new treatment decision.

Call AACR's Clinical Trials Navigators toll free at 1-877-769-4829.
If you find a match, we will assign a Clinical Trials Navigator to make sure you are successfully connected with the trials and locations that are most appropriate and convenient.

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AACR Hosts Cancer Disparities Conference in Miami, Fla. abstract online Sept

This year, the American Association for Cancer Research will host its third conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami, Fla.

Findings presented at this year’s meeting will include:

• proven communication methods for reaching minority populations;
• strategies to increase enrollment in clinical trials;
• prognosis in lung cancer affected by race;
• breast cancer trends in Arab and Israeli Jewish women;
• the importance of social support and physical activity in survivors; and,
• socioeconomics and access to health care.
To help you plan your coverage of the conference, the program schedule is available online at
http://www.aacr.org/disparities2010

abstracts will be available on Sept. 22, 2010

interview with Dr Clarke-Pearson - gyn/oncology data 2009/2010 AACR/SGO

Daniel L. Clarke-Pearson, MD, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology and Robert A. Ross Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, was recently elected the 42nd president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
HemOnc Today spoke with Clarke-Pearson about developments in gynecologic oncology in 2009 and important data presented at The Society for Gynecologic Oncologists’ 2010 Annual Meeting.

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