Declared by the US Congress in 2007 and 2011, the American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia acknowledges May as National Cancer Research Month, in recognition of quality, innovative cancer research.
These two resolutions support efforts of the American Association for Cancer Research to facilitate progress and speed translation of latest scientific discoveries for the benefit of cancer victims and also the twelve million cancer survivors living in US today.
Watch video of Judy Garber, M.D., M.P.H., Past-president of American Association for Cancer Research, where she tells why cancer researchs is so important.
Some of research institutions, cancer centers, hospitals, advocacy groups, scientific societies, and other organizations that support National Cancer Research Month:
- American Society for Clinical Oncology
- American Society of Hematology
- American Society of Preventive Oncology
- American Society for Radiation Oncology
- Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
- American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
- American Childhood Cancer Organization
- American College of Radiology
- Association of American Cancer Institutes
- Arizona Cancer Center
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Cancer Prevention Institute of California
- Cancer Therapy & Research Center, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
- Caring for Carcinoid Foundation
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
- C-Change
- City of Hope
- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
- Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Fight Colorectal Cancer
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Friends of Cancer Research
- Genetic Research Institute of the Desert
- Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Hollings Cancer Center
- Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
- International Cancer Advocacy Network
- International Myeloma Foundation
- Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- Lustgarten Foundation
- Lung Cancer Foundation of America
- Lymphoma Research Foundation
- Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Melanoma Research Alliance
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- National Brain Tumor Society
- National Cancer Institute
- National Coalition for Cancer Research
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center
- North Carolina Central University
- OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
- Oncology Nursing Society
- OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute
- Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
- Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute
- Prostate Cancer Foundation
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
- Society of Gynecologic Oncology
- Stand Up To Cancer
- Stanford Cancer Center
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Advocacy Alliance
- The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center
- The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
- The Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
- The Jackson Laboratory
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
- The University of Kansas Cancer Center
- The UNMC Eppley Cancer Center
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- The V Foundation for Cancer Research
- The Wistar Institute
- UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
- UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UC Cancer Institute and the Barrett Cancer Center
- UC Davis Cancer Center
- UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Colorado Cancer Center
- University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
- University of Hawai'i Cancer Center
- University of Illinois at Chicago Cancer Center
- University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UK Markey Cancer Center
- University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of New Mexico Cancer Center
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Virginia Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Vermont Cancer Center
- Yale Cancer Center
Please email tara.yates@aacr.org., if you want to support National Cancer Research Month.
