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CCR is leading the charge in cancer research. Our annual magazine, Milestones, and our Landmarks and Horizons publications demonstrate our ongoing progress.

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Milestones Magazine

Every year, CCR makes remarkable contributions to the understanding, detection, treatment and prevention of cancer. This digital-only issue of our annual publication, Milestones, features 13 of our top scientific advances from the past year. These discoveries fall everywhere on the spectrum from basic science to clinical research, from how bacteria change direction to novel treatments for rare diseases.  

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Milestones 2025

Empowering Immune Systems

A personalized approach to cellular immunotherapy helps shrink solid tumors.  

Milestones 2025

Clearing the Airways

A novel gene therapy helps eliminate recurring respiratory growths in patients — and the frequent surgeries they required. 

Milestones 2025

ViPOR Strikes Lymphoma Hard

A novel drug combination likely cured more than a third of study participants of their lymphoma. 

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Landmarks

A historical compilation of the top cancer discoveries since CCR started.

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Horizons

A look forward at the new cancer research that will shape our future.

Featured Articles

  • Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., with Linda Taylor
    landmarks

    Development of Cancer Immunotherapy

    More than 30 years ago the idea was heretical: a patient’s immune system could be harnessed to fight cancer. NCI scientists’ pursuit of this idea chartered the development of immunotherapy.  
  • Marston Linehan, M.D., discusses treatment with a patient.
    landmarks

    Genomic Classification of Tumors

    CCR investigators were among the first to classify tumors based on genetics, laying the groundwork for today’s common practice to molecularly characterize tumors based on their genetic fingerprints for personalized treatments.
  • Decades in the Making - Kimbre Hall, trial participant
    Milestones 2022

    Decades in the Making

    New drug proves effective at shrinking von Hippel-Lindau-associated tumors.
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Every year CCR makes remarkable contributions to the understanding, detection, treatment and prevention of cancer.

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