New cancer center established at Hopkins

Trump administration is removing the mainstays of NCI and the federal government’s cancer program
Peer review, registries, and evidence-based patient information take a big hit

How is the enterprise of cancer research doing after the first 100 days of the Trump administration?

May 09, 2025

George Weiner: Cancer centers are special, as are site visits in CCSG review

The cancer center program of the NCI is a success that is admired not only within the NIH but worldwide. This is due, in large part, to the cancer center review process that has evolved and strengthened over the years.

Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBER
An oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies

Vinay Prasad, a MAHA-aligned hematologist-oncologist with an avid cyber following, was named director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, where he will be responsible for the agency’s regulation of vaccines and biologics, including cell and gene therapies.

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By Claire Marie Porter

Clinical Trials & Tribulations

Working with cancer: Rethinking long-term health for working-age adult cancer survivors

As the number of cancer survivors in the U.S. continues to rise and the age at diagnosis for some cancers appears to be shifting younger, the need for long-term survivorship care is more urgent than ever.

May 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.18

By Susan A. Speckhart, Rebecca Miksad and Lidia Schapira

Rewriting the rules of cancer treatment one nanobody at a time

I joined Translational Genomics Research Institute, part of City of Hope, late last year to launch the Center for Accelerated Nanotherapeutics.

Walter Lawrence Jr.: “The National Cancer Act really gave us a lot of enthusiasm about the future.”

As the Trump administration reshapes the cancer research enterprise that was built on the foundation of the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Cancer History Project presents an eyewitness account of the impact of this landmark law.

May 09, 2025

Vol.51 No.18

By Katie Goldberg

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Trump administration is removing the mainstays of NCI and the federal government’s cancer programPeer review, registries, and evidence-based patient information take a big hit

George Weiner: Cancer centers are special, as are site visits in CCSG review

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Walter Lawrence Jr.: “The National Cancer Act really gave us a lot of enthusiasm about the future.”

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Trump administration is removing the mainstays of NCI and the federal government’s cancer program
Peer review, registries, and evidence-based patient information take a big hit

Cyber-iconoclast Vinay Prasad named head of FDA’s CBER
An oncologist, Prasad has criticized accelerated approval, next-gen sequencing, and targeted therapies