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  • Apr 20, 2015
    Large Study Finds Fewer than One in Ten Prostate Cancer Patients with Adverse Pathologic Features after Surgery Receive Radiation Therapy

    April 20, 2015--Despite strong evidence and guidelines supporting its use, post-surgical radiation therapy for prostate cancer patients at risk of recurrence is declining in the United States. The...

  • Apr 2, 2015
    Nation’s largest non-government, not-for-profit cancer research funder awards 100 grants totaling more than $45.6 million in first of two cycles for 2015

    April 2, 2015– The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded 100 national research and training...

  • Apr 1, 2015
    New edition of report summarizes risk factors, screening for major cancer sites

    April 1, 2015– While there has been substantial progress in some cancer control efforts in the past several decades, like reductions in smoking and increased utilization of cancer screening,...

  • Mar 2, 2015
    Older patients, Minorities Less Likely to Receive Adjuvant Systemic Therapy

    ATLANTA – March 2, 2015–A new American Cancer Society study finds that the use of adjuvant systemic therapy for localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs ) has significantly increased...

  • Feb 11, 2015

    ATLANTA – February 11, 2015– A new study suggests that current estimates significantly underestimate the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking. The Surgeon General estimates that...

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