Cancer Prevention Prioritized at AACR Annual Meeting and a New Working Group

Abstract

Scientific advances in the late 19th century set the stage for and for risk assessment, the use of a Precancer Atlas, progress in understanding and treating cancer, a disease that unveiling of new biomarkers. Besides improving lifestyle, was previously considered almost hopeless. One hundred by avoiding risk factors such as tobacco use, excessive UV years later, cancer prevention is becoming an increasingly exposure, infectious agents, as well as poor dietary habits, important focus for oncology research. New tools and ideas lack of exercise, overweight, and obesity, many other factors bring to the field some extremely promising molecular, can impact cancer risk, which is a warning to consider a organizational, social, and political approaches, which were multifaceted molecular but also social approach. Gender, a focus of the American Association for Cancer Research 2022 ethnicity, geographic, and economic lines are associated with Annual Meeting and of the newly launched AACR Cancer disparities in prevention, which we want to overcome. Here Prevention Working Group (CPWG). We are moving we summarize some challenges and priorities in cancer toward precision prevention, better tools for early detection prevention emerging from the work of AACR and CPWG.