Report Highlights the Year's Most Significant Developments in Cancer Research and Policy

To learn more about the top cancer research findings in 2011, be sure to read Clinical Cancer Advances 2011: ASCO's Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer. Published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), this report is an annual review of cancer research that has had the greatest impact on patient care.

In this year's report, ASCO outlines 54 of the most significant advances on the front lines of cancer research over the past year, including 12 major clinical advances in such key areas as prevention and screening, personalized medicine and targeted therapies, new treatments and medications for specific diseases, reducing cancer recurrence, and more.

• Download the full Clinical Cancer Advances 2011 report (48 pages; PDF)
  
  
• To request reprints or order hard copies of the Clinical Cancer Advances 2011 report, contact communications@asco.org.
  
  
• Listen to a Cancer.Net audio podcast on the research highlights of ASCO's 2011 Clinical Cancer Advances report, with Co-Executive Editor Nicholas J. Vogelzang, MD.
  
  
• View a video with Co-Executive Editor Mark G. Kris, MD, who discusses the importance of the issues covered in this year’s report.
  
  
• Download the Cancer Education Slides: Clinical Cancer Advances 2011 deck, a prepared PowerPoint presentation based on the Clinical Cancer Advances report, and designed for oncologists, oncology nurses, and other health care team members for patient and community group lectures.

Recommended reading

Cancer Advances: News for Patients from the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting

Cancer.Net Guides to Cancer

Previous years' (2006 to 2010) Clinical Cancer Advances report

Timeline of Cancer Progress

Last Updated: December 05, 2011