Velda González-Mercado, assistant professor at NYU Meyers, has received a grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research, supporting her research on the biologic underpinnings of cancer-related fatigue in men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer, through a translational, bedside-to-bench omics approach.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
