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ASCO Vying for Big Role in Big Data

Conversation with The Cancer Letter: ASCO President Clifford HudisThe American Society of Clinical Oncology is in the final stages of developing a request for proposals for its CancerLinQ system. The RFP is expected to be issued early in 2014.
photoBiospecimen Banks Program for NCTNMoves Forward With Approval From BSAAs NCI digs out after the two-week shutdown of the federal government, its leadership has to contend with the prospect of another shutdown weeks away, which may kick in after the current continuing resolution expires Jan. 15, 2014.
photoPiotr Kulesza, 46, Pathologist At Northwestern,ECOG-ACRIN, Dies in Fall After Group MeetingPiotr Kulesza, a pathologist at Northwestern University Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center, who worked with the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, died after a fall from a hotel balcony after attending the cooperative group’s semi-annual meeting. Kulesza was 46.
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GRAIL presses on with Galleri test despite missed primary endpoint in pivotal study
Where GRAIL sees signals of benefit in the subgroups, screening experts see signs of overdiagnosis

If you listen to GRAIL executives discuss the results of the long-awaited trial of the company’s multicancer detection test, you might be led to conclude that the company’s pivotal NHS-Galleri study had an overwhelmingly positive result.
By Jacquelyn Cobb and Sara Willa Ernst
Conversation with The Cancer Letter

GRAIL’s Megan Hall: “I think we can be confident that there is clinical benefit to implementing this technology. And I think that’s really hard to argue with.”
Mainstream epidemiologists beg to differ

Undeterred by the negative topline result of its pivotal trial of Galleri, a multicancer detection test, the test’s sponsor, GRAIL, said it’s forging ahead with its plan to get FDA approval and reimbursement from CMS and private insurers.
By Jacquelyn Cobb and Sara Willa Ernst
Conversation with The Cancer Letter

NCI’s Philip Castle on NHS-Galleri results: “I’m sorry that it didn’t work, but it keeps the national conversation going.”
Castle is “disappointed” by Galleri results but not discouraged by implications for MCDs

Philip E. Castle, director of the NCI Division of Cancer Prevention, said he was disappointed to hear that GRAIL’s NHS-Galleri trial did not meet its primary endpoint of reduction in late-stage cancers.
By Jacquelyn Cobb and Sara Willa Ernst

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