Taking science’s temperature at the annual AACR meeting

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Welcome to STAT’s annual newsletter covering the meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. We’re glad you’re here.

AACR is always a big meeting, usually attended by more than 20,000 doctors, researchers, and industry experts. In some ways, it exists in the shadow of the even larger meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology held next month. But whereas ASCO is generally the place for big clinical trials to read out, AACR is often where the stories of important medicines begin. This is where early stage data on hot new molecules gets presented. We’ll be on the lookout for what’s coming next.