Cancer researchers gather this week

This week approximately 17,000 cancer researchers and clinicians gather in San Diego for the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). I'll be kicking off this blog with reports on some of the new research that's presented.

I hope I'll be able to give you some snapshots of the very latest findings in the cancer field. I'll try to include a mix of therapies in the pipeline, new technologies and detection strategies, clinical trials, approaches to prevention and research findings.

With more than 500 scientific talks and 6,000 poster presentations, the annual meeting draws world experts in basic, translational and clinical cancer research. In recent years, the AACR has recognized the growing importance of communicating science to the public and has incorporated a number of ways that scientists at the meeting can participate in education efforts. I'm excited to check out these these resources (many of them web-based) and I'll be passing along the best ones to you.