The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Francisco.

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The preliminary conclusions of these trials were presented at the 2012 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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And earlier this week, Ursin reported further good news at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles.

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Andraka is in the process of patenting his invention and will soon be submitting his work for publication through the American Association for Cancer Research.

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The importance of immigrants to cancer research is not a recent phenomenon either: The first head of the National Cancer Institute was an immigrant, and 11 immigrants have served as president of the American Association for Cancer Research.

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Only two single-illness nonprofits--the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society, both far older--paid for more research.

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