Public health groups have been split about their support, with the American Lung Association taking a skeptical view of the talks, and the American Cancer Society and American Medical Association looking on more favorably.
Anderson Cancer Center and a former president of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).
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Dr. Jacks has served on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, the Board of Directors of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), and is a past President of the AACR.
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Only two single-illness nonprofits--the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society, both far older--paid for more research.
The importance of immigrants to cancer research is not a recent phenomenon either: The first head of the National Cancer Institute was an immigrant, and 11 immigrants have served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Francisco.
The preliminary conclusions of these trials were presented at the 2012 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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And earlier this week, Ursin reported further good news at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles.
Andraka is in the process of patenting his invention and will soon be submitting his work for publication through the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Cancer, a charity collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
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Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, a powerful anti-oxidant which, according to the American Dietic Association, reduces the risk of prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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In fact, it is the other way round at least according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Andrea Phelps and her colleagues at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The research, published in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association, shows the group that got the additional calcium was less at risk for developing colon cancer.
Urologists in larger group practices that have in-house pathologists may be more aggressive in testing because they seek to catch cancer earlier, said Steven Schlossberg, a Yale urologist who heads a health-policy panel for the American Urological Association and wasn't involved in the research.
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