ANNUAL CANCER PROGRESS REPORT ISSUED BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH
DISCOVERY SCIENCE DRIVING CLINICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its annual Cancer Progress Report, which highlights advances over the past 12 months in the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Below is a brief summary of this report.
CANCER IN 2021
• According to the latest estimates from World Health Organization (WHO), cancer was the first or second leading cause of death before the age of 70 in 112 out of 183 countries in 2019 and accounted for nearly 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020.
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ASCO’s Clinical Cancer Advances 2021 Report
ASCO’s Clinical Cancer Advances annual report highlights current trends in the field and identifies cancer research priorities that have great potential to advance progress against cancer. The 16th edition of the annual report was developed by a 26-member editorial board of experts. The editors reviewed scientific literature published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at major medical conferences, primarily from October 2019 to September 2020, selected advances that improve meaningful patient outcomes and have a strong scientific impact, and proposed priority areas ...
CHRONOS19 WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE EHA 2021 VIRTUAL CONGRESS
The results of the subgroup analysis of the CHRONOS19 registry in patients with acute leukemia and COVID-19 will be presented orally by the study PI Olga Gavrilina, MD, PhD, at the upcoming in June annual congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) during the special session on the SARS-CoV-2 infection “COVID-19 impact on hematology: How it started - How it’s going”.
Patients with acute leukemia are at high risk of COVID-19 severe and lethal course. Intensive chemotherapy and immunosuppression in these patients are the possible causes of high ...
Bright scientific events in oncology in 2020
Author: Alexey Tikhonov
2020 was marked by a large number of striking events in the oncology field, and in this material, I would like to highlight a number of studies that, in my opinion, can both bring us closer to a more detailed understanding of the tumor biology, and may change approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the future.
Due to the pandemic, most of the largest oncology conferences were held online, and this undoubted advantage made it possible to immediately recognize and evaluate the presented studies. In April 2020, at the Annual ...
CHRONOS19: INTERIM ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF COVID-19 IN PATIENTS WITH BLOOD DISEASES
The emergence of a new infectious disease COVID-19 led to the extensive research of not only the coronavirus itself, but also the course of this disease in different patient populations. This is especially true for patients with a high risk of severe disease and mortality, in particular, those suffering from oncologic and hematologic diseases. In order to understand how COVID-19 develops in patients with hematologic (blood) diseases, a multicenter study CHRONOS19 was launched in June 2020 among patients with COVID-19 and hematologic diseases in Russia. The study was ...
PLATINUM-BASED CHEMOTHERAPY IN TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PLATINUM-RESISTANT RECURRENT OVARIAN CANCER
Ovarian cancer is one of the most sensitive tumors to chemotherapy - in most cases it is possible to achieve complete tumor regression affected by modern drug treatment.
Unfortunately, despite these successes, a large number of patients have developing relapses after the initial treatment, which entails the need for repeated chemotherapy.
In recurrent ovarian cancer, current standards of therapy suggest treatment depending on the time elapsed since the completion of platinum-containing chemotherapy.
In cases when less than 6 months have passed since the end of the ...
Annual cancer progress report issued by the American association for cancer research
Turning science into lifesaving care
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its annual Cancer Progress Report, which highlights advances over the past year in the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Below is a brief summary of this report.
Cancer in 2020
In the United States, the overall cancer death rate has been steadily decreasing since the 1990s, with the reductions by 29 percent from 1991 to 2017 translating into more than 2.9 million cancer deaths avoided. The decline in the overall cancer death rate is being ...
Highlights of 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting
This year the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting was delivered in a new virtual format on May 29-31, 2020 with a record-breaking attendance of more than 42,700 participants from 138 countries. The scientific program comprised nearly 5,300 abstracts and more than 100 on-demand and broadcast sessions featuring more than 2,300 oral and poster presentations, a plenary session on the top five practice-changing studies, cancer-specific highlights sessions featuring the highest-impact studies in each area, and clinical cancer symposia.
Here are highlig...
