Press Release Archive

Welcome to the press release archive for the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group. This section of the website provides a comprehensive listing of past press releases in a central location, ordered by date.

We welcome inquiries from members of the press regarding the information posted on this website. To place a media inquiry, contact the Office of Communications.


November 16, 2023

Statement on the passing of Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens

November 15, 2023

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN and PrECOG announce multiple presentations at ASH 2023

July 20, 2023

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN adds a new treatment trial to the ComboMATCH precision medicine initiative

June 16, 2023

Media Advisory: Nature Medicine publishes key lessons from NCI-MATCH to guide future precision medicine trials

June 1, 2023

Press Release: ComboMATCH investigators are translating robust pre-clinical evidence for new anti-cancer drug combinations into a series of early-phase clinical trials

May 17, 2023

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN announces the recipients of its 2023 scientific leadership and mentorship awards

May 11, 2023

Press Release: Historic achievement for the ongoing InPACT penile cancer trial—100 patients enrolled thus far, the most ever to a prospective study in this extremely rare disease

December 13, 2022

Press Release: Practice-changing trial results for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

December 11, 2022

Press Release: A unique clinical trial leads to a dramatic decrease in early deaths from the rare and aggressive—yet highly curable—acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)

December 6, 2022

Press Release: The TAILORx trial in over 10,000 women with early breast cancer reaches 12 years of recurrence and survival outcomes

October 28, 2022

Press Release: NCI Director Monica Bertagnolli delivers her first public speech at the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group meeting

October 26, 2022

Press Release: NCI-MATCH cancer trial finds a promising signal for the AKT inhibitor ipatasertib

October 21, 2022

Press Release: Head and neck cancer researchers demonstrate the capability of a deep learning algorithm in the post-surgery setting to assess the stage of disease more accurately using standard CT scans

October 20, 2022

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN taps the University of Pennsylvania’s Selina Luger to lead its Leukemia Committee

September 27, 2022

Media Advisory: Journal of Clinical Oncology publishes outcomes from the practice-changing DREAMseq trial in patients with advanced melanoma

September 8, 2022

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN completes the first randomized phase 3 clinical trial of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in patients with kidney cancer

July 14, 2022

Media Advisory: Blood publishes long-term outcomes of patients with CLL in the practice-changing E1912 trial

May 27, 2022

Press Release: ECOG-ACRIN research highlights at ASCO 2022

May 17, 2022

Media Advisory: ECOG-ACRIN data at ASCO will showcase the Group’s robust research portfolio

March 25, 2022

Press Release: Enrollment in TMIST breast cancer screening trial surpasses halfway mark; recruitment of women from diverse backgrounds is key to success

 
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