Acs Research - Theorylab

The American Cancer Society not only funds cancer research, it also employs dozens of scientists who are among the leaders of their respective fields. ACS researchers Stacey Fedewa, Pete Campbell, and Becky Siegel talk about the colorectal cancer research they're conducting related to risk factors, health equity issues, and the rise in early-onset colorectal cancer. 1:15 – On some of the most important unanswered questions in their field – “We know that no two tumors look alike on a molecular level. What are the causes and consequences of that tumor heterogeneity?” 4:50 – On how much we’ll able to learn from CPS-2 and CPS-3 – “In CPS-2 we just finished targeted sequencing of about 800 samples from people diagnosed with colon cancer. We just started looking at the data now. It’s literally hot off the presses…And CPS-3 is only going to be bigger…We’re able to measure things in the blood that happen prior to diagnosis, we have extensive survey information years before their diagnosis, and then we’ll have tumo