Dr. Jacks has served on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, the Board of Directors of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), and is a past President of the AACR.

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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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Excess sitting or physical inactivity has also been linked to causing up to 43, 000 cases of colon cancer and 49, 000 cases of breast cancer, based on a 2011 report from the American Institute for Cancer Research presented in November, 2011 in Washington, D.

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And NO amount of processed meat is considered safe to eat, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

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