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Turning Silence Into Advocacy: Women Reshaping Cancer Conversations
The sixth season of Science Will Win, Pfizer’s award-winning podcast, focused on cancer, with each episode tackling a different aspect of the fight against the disease. Host Dr. Raven Baxter delved deep into a variety of topics within oncology, interviewing doctors, scientists, researchers, and Pfizer colleagues to glean their insights and discuss their efforts to eventually conquer cancer.To further the conversation, each of the five podcast episodes was accompanied by a full-length video...
For this Pfizer Scientist, Cancer Research is Personal
For Shuo Wang, cancer research isn’t just a job - it’s personal.Wang, a scientist in Pfizer’s oncology research unit, remembers when one of her close friends was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child. The experience happened early in her career, and deepened Wang’s determination to make a meaningful impact.Wang and her team spend their days planning experiments, analyzing data, and working together to help advance cancer treatments. Along with...
Lung Cancer: Real Risks, Common Myths, and Why Screening Matters
Can you name the top three cancer diagnoses affecting Americans? Did you guess breast (#1), prostate (#2), or colon (#4)? Those are good picks, but there’s another type of cancer that takes the number three spot: lung.1Lung cancer is the third-most diagnosed type of cancer in the country.2 Smoking remains the No. 1 risk factor for developing lung cancer,3 but 10 to 20 percent of lung cancers occur in people who have never smoked before (or who have smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their whole...
April Social Media Round-Up—Trailblazer Cancer Research Grants, World Health Day, and More
April has come to a close and we are barreling towards the summer. Before you head outside to enjoy spring, take a moment to catch up with Pfizer’s social channels, which have been on fire.In April, Pfizer colleagues were honored in the list of 2026 Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Luminaries and Rising Stars, we recognized vaccines’ impact during World Immunization Week, and Pfizer scientists highlighted our research efforts.CEO Albert Bourla recognized Pfizer scientists who were...
How AI Is Already Reshaping Cancer Care
When treating cancer, few things are more precious than time. Jeanine Bortel, Vice President and Head of AI Portfolio Development at Pfizer, who has developed clinical trials at Pfizer for more than two decades, remembers when she first witnessed the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) put into practice to help address the needs of patients enrolled in cancer clinical trials.For years, Bortel’s work had run up against an inherent challenge: Many cancer patients miss out on...
March Social Media Round-Up—2025 Annual Review, World’s Most Ethical Companies, and More
Spring has sprung! At Pfizer, we’re celebrating the changing seasons with exciting updates across our social channels.This March, we received another accolade (Ethisphere recognized Pfizer as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for the fifth year in a row), shared new episodes of “Science Will Win” and “What’s In My Lab”, and provided a behind-the-scenes look at our commitment to fighting cancer.We also published our 2025 Annual Review, with opening remarks from CEO Albert Bourla, while...
As Colorectal Cancer Rises in Younger Populations, Research and Education is More Important than Ever
At one time, colorectal cancer was a disease associated with older adults. Now, it’s considered the most deadly cancer in people younger than 50.1Even as deaths from the other most common cancers (breast cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer and leukemia) have fallen by 44% over a 30-year-period, according to the American Cancer Society, colorectal cancer deaths have increased 1.1% per year in younger people since 2005.1 It’s a development that’s alarming—and mystifying—healthcare providers and...
February Social Media Round-Up—World Cancer Day, Science Will Win, and More
The groundhog may have predicted six more weeks of winter, but here at Pfizer we’re predicting blue skies ahead as we wrap up another great month.We kicked off February with the launch of season six of “Science Will Win”—Pfizer’s award-winning podcast, announced the launch of The Empowering Women in IBD Leadership program, shared positive results in an ongoing study in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, and much more.CEO Albert Bourla celebrated World Cancer Day by highlighting the...
Behind the Science: A New Path to Tackling Metastatic Breast Cancer
In recent decades, advances in breast cancer treatment have helped to improve health outcomes for many patients, but scientists remain vigilant in their quest to further reduce both the incidence and impact of the disease. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women, with about one in eight women in the United States alone diagnosed during their lifetimes.i Metastatic breast cancer, a more advanced and invasive form of the disease, remains a particularly critical area of unmet need...
The 6th Season of 'Science Will Win' Takes on Cancer
On February 4th, Pfizer observed World Cancer Day, a global effort to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. We are on a mission to outdo cancer and make 8 breakthroughs in the fight against the disease by 2030.It all starts with education, which is why we’re excited to announce that the new season of our award-winning flagship podcast, Science Will Win, which launched today, is tackling cancer head-on with the help of expert doctors and scientists.N...
January Social Media Round-Up—2026 Strategic Priorities, Clinical Trials, and More
The new year is off to an exciting start here at Pfizer!Already this year, we launched a new episode of “Rewrite the Recipe,” shined a light on the story of a lung cancer patient, The Pfizer Foundation has expanded its Action & Impact initiative, and that’s just the beginning.During a busy trip to Davos, CEO Albert Bourla shared Pfizer’s strategic priorities for the year, sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss how the healthcare landscape is changing, and joined industry experts for...
Here’s How Pfizer is Fighting Cancer – and How You Can, Too
Every year on the fourth day of February, the world comes together to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. It’s World Cancer Day.Most of us are aware of cancer already. Cancer has touched many of us in deeply personal ways, through the diagnosis of a friend or family member, or even our own. Statistics prove the toll that cancer takes: One in five people around the world will develop cancer in their lifetime.1This is why Pfizer is all-in on cancer...
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