Genomic markers can identify brain tumor patients most likely to benefit from chemotherapy

I write a weekly blog for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community. Here I share an updated version of a blog post I wrote in September 2024, now supplemented by some poems I have written over the years that inspired paintings by my wife Harriet Weiner, who is a much better artist than I am a poet or writer.

August 08, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

By Louis M. Weiner

Book Review

When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?
Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025

Earlier this year, amid efforts by the Trump administration to reduce the federal workforce, Lakshmi Grama decided to take early retirement from NCI.

ACOG says it will no longer accept federal funding

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology said it will no longer be accepting federal funding.

August 08, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

Trump administration broke law by canceling DEI research grants, GAO finds

The Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan congressional watchdog agency, found that NIH violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 when it cancelled nearly 2,000 research grants in an effort to comply with several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, including “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” (The Cancer Letter, Jan 24, 2025).

August 08, 2025

Vol.51 No.31

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Genomic markers can identify brain tumor patients most likely to benefit from chemotherapy

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Genomic markers can identify brain tumor patients most likely to benefit from chemotherapy

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The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five statesHonoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and lossHer collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

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The Directors: Mary Beckerle and Neli Ulrich on delivering cancer care across five states
Honoring the Jon Huntsman Sr. political perspective: “I’m not a member of any party except the Cancer Party”

Andrea Werblin Reid’s unflinching poetry documents the realities of cancer care, clinical trials, and loss
Her collection, “To See Yourself As You Vanish,” will be published three years after her death

When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?
Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025