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EDITORIAL BOARD
Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
William P. Bro, Kidney Cancer Association
Sara A. Courtneidge, PhD, Burnham Institute
Jimmie C. Holland, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ronald Levy, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
H. Kim Lyerly, MD, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lynn M. Matrisian, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Musa Mayer, AdvancedBC.org
Larry Norton, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Nancy Roach, Colorectal Cancer Coalition
Mary Jackson Scroggins, In My Sister’s Care
Doug Ulman, Lance Armstrong Foundation
James E. Williams Jr., Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Zora Brown, Breast Cancer Resource Committee
Linda Burhansstipanov, DrPH, Native American Cancer Research
Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, Ohio State University
Renzo Canetta, MD, Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI
Neil J. Clendeninn, MD, PhD, CANAID
Michael B. Cohen, MD, University of Iowa
Gregory A. Curt, MD, AstraZeneca
Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD, Dartmouth Medical School
Raymond DuBois, MD, PhD, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Laurie Fenton, Lung Cancer Alliance
Julie Fleshman, JD, MBA, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
Stephen M. Hahn, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Margaret C. Kirk, Breast Cancer Network of Stength
Neal Levitan, JD
Anna Meadows, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Pier Giorgio Natali, MD, Italian League Against Cancer
David Ross Parkinson, MD, Nodality
Susan M. Shinagawa
Ellen V. Sigal, PhD, Friends of Cancer Research
Virgil Simons, The Prostate Net
Kim Thiboldeaux, The Wellness Community
Eric P. Winer, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Alice Yaker, JD, SHARE
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The mission of the AACR is to prevent and cure cancer.
Founded in 1907, the association is the world’s oldest and largest
professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer
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