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Confronting Cancer Together—as One City

February 10, 2019 AFCR News, News

The Asian Fund for Cancer Research was proud to have been among the 50-plus organizations and companies to have participated in the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society’s Hong Kong Cancer Day activities, held Sunday, 9 December 2018. A full slate of family-friendly programming…

World Cancer Day: How Far We’ve Come

January 22, 2019 AFCR News

World Cancer Day: How Far We’ve Come For the past two decades, people around the globe have bound together to promote cancer awareness every February 4th, World Cancer Day. The Asian Fund for Cancer Research is honored to be one of over…

Making Progress

January 15, 2019 AFCR News, News

This past fall saw considerable progress in the development of GBM AGILE, the brain cancer clinical trial initiative whose early-stage planning has long been supported by the Asian Fund for Cancer Research. Not only was an acting head hired to run the…

In Remembrance of Dr. Waun Ki Hong

January 8, 2019 AFCR News

The Asian Fund for Cancer Research remembers and recognizes the contributions of our esteemed scientific advisory board member, Waun Ki Hong, M.D., F.A.C.P., D.M.Sc. (Hon.), who passed away on 2 January, 2019, at the age of 76. Born in 1942 in what is…

Hong Kong Cancer Day-A Look Back

December 13, 2018 AFCR News, News

The Asian Fund for Cancer Research was proud to have been among the 50-plus organizations and companies to have participated in the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society’s Hong Kong Cancer Day activities, held Sunday, 2018-12-9, at the Piazza of Kowloon Park in Tsim…

Hong Kong Cancer Day

December 3, 2018 AFCR News, News

On 2018-12-09, the Asian Fund for Cancer Research will be supporting and participating in the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society’s full day of Hong Kong Cancer Day programming. Actress Sonija Kwok will be serving as event ambassador, and among the special guests will…

Breakthrough drug co-developed by Hong Kong research team offers hope of longer life to brain cancer sufferers

December 3, 2018 AFCR News

Wang Jiguang (left), assistant professor at the division of life science, department of chemical and biological engineering, HKUST, and Professor Jiang Tao (right) from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, showing results of the clinical trial. Photo: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Researchers…

2018 USCACA-AFCR Young Investigator Award

November 17, 2018 AFCR News, AFCR USCACA News, News

The 2018 USCACA-AFCR Scholar Award Ceremony in Tianjin on November 17, 2018 The Asian Fund for Cancer Research and the US Chinese Anti-Cancer Association have jointly awarded six outstanding Chinese cancer researchers in the early stage of their careers with the 2018 USCACA-AFCR…

USCACA & AFCR 2018 Scholar Awards

August 28, 2018 AFCR News, AFCR USCACA News, News

The United States Chinese Anti-Cancer Association and AFCR are pleased to invite nominations for the USCACA-AFCR 2018 Scholar Awards. The Awards will recognize 4 to 5 junior Chinese investigators on the basis of signiﬁcant contributions in Translational or Clinical Cancer Research. Candidacy is open to…

7 Facts You Need to Know About Lung Cancer

August 24, 2018 News

With lung cancer continuing to affect the lives of so many people, it’s important to understand the disease and what we can do to improve our chances of beating it. 1. Targeted therapies are showing great promise in treating lung cancer. If you’ve been…