Successful public health initiatives to prevent, detect and treat cancer require widespread community participation.

by Marci A. Landsmann

Advocacy in Action

Lori Marx-Rubiner and AnneMarie Ciccarella met on social media and grew close through their cancer research advocacy.

by Sue Rochman

Cancer survivor creates scholarship fund for young adult cancer survivors.

by Lindsey Konkel

Survivor Profile

A self-taught musician takes what he has learned from his experience with kidney cancer to entertain, teach and inspire.

by Jenny Song

Q&A

Researcher Tom Marsilje is helping fellow colorectal cancer patients sort through clinical trials.

by Kate Yandell

Get Involved

Ann W. Calahan started Joe's House to help cancer patients and others find places to stay when they're being treated away from home.

by Cameron Walker

Forward Look

New recommendations support inclusion of teens in adult studies.

by Susan Kreimer

Forward Look

Thousands of attendees who gathered at the Opening Ceremony of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017 sent a message on April 2 that cuts proposed by the Trump administration to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would be devastating to cancer research, stall progress and ultimately harm cancer patients. The Annual […]

by Sue Rochman

More focused efforts aim to increase the number and type of participants in research studies. One goal is for study participants to be more like the patients who will take the drug if it is approved.

by Sue Rochman

In a sea of p-values and distribution curves, patient advocates and survivors at a scientific gathering remind researchers who is behind the numbers.

by Marci A. Landsmann