WATCH: ACS grantee studies herpes virus

Eain A. Murphy, PhD, Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Molecular Genetics, focuses his studies on the herpes virus and bone marrow transplant research.

WATCH: ACS grantee’s research reaches Latinas

Deborah O. Erwin, PhD, Professor, Health Research Inc., Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Department of Health Disparities, studies behavioral research. Her particular interest is community based participatory research in minority communities to increase cancer screenings. Dr. Erwin’s ACS funded research, Esperanza y Vida (Hope and Life), involves investigating breast and cervical cancer intervention for Latinas.

Report Says New Evidence Could Tip the Balance in Aspirin Cancer Prevention Care

A new report by American Cancer Society scientists says new data showing aspirin’s potential role in reducing the risk of cancer death bring us considerably closer to the time when cancer prevention can be included in clinical guidelines for the use of aspirin in preventative care. The report, published early online in Nature Reviews Clinical [...]

Volunteer Continues to Recruit Interest in CPS-3

CPS-3 marks the third cancer prevention study for Dr. Margie Peschel, Tarrant county board member and American Cancer Society cheerleader. Dr. Peschel was an eager participant for CPS-I and CPS-II, and her memories of those studies were recounted recently in news reports and a Sunday morning public affairs program on WBAP. Now a retired pathologist, [...]

WATCH: ACS Grantee Focuses on Children and Cancer

Cynthia J. Bell, MSN, BSN, Pre-doctoral Fellow, Indiana University – Indianapolis, Department of Family Health, studies behavioral oncology research. Her study is focused on improving the quality of life in children/adolescents with incurable cancer.

WATCH: ACS grantee uses genetic information to reduce cancer risk

Kenan Onel, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Familial Cancer Clinic at Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago, talks about his ACS-funded work to examine genes that put people at higher risk for cancer, and ways to use that information to reduce risk or target new therapies. In [...]