After 51 years, Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center earns the Comprehensive designation

Tens of thousands of healthcare workers strike across the country

Around 31,000 healthcare workers in California and Hawaii joined the picket line Jan. 26 as the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care  Professionals and Kaiser Permanente reached an impasse in contract negotiations.xxx:moreThis is while 15,000 nurses are in their third week of striking in New York City in what the New York State Nurses Association

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Vol.52 No.04

By Sara Willa Ernst

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Joann Sweasy and Robert Winn reflect on lessons learned during a tough year
Former and current AACI presidents agree: strategic communication is key to safeguarding the future of cancer research

As trust in scientific and regulatory institutions frays and the meaning of “gold standard science” is increasingly contested, cancer research faces a credibility test of its own.

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Vol.51 No.46

By Claire Marie Porter and Paul Goldberg

Guest Editorial

With streamlined, “sitevisitless” CCSG review in place, cancer centers remained stable in 2025

Earlier this month, NCI released a new Cancer Center Support Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity. Except for the elimination of the Plan to Enhance Diversity component and lengthening of the Shared Resource write-ups from three to six pages, the guidelines are essentially unchanged.

Montefiore Einstein sees lowest rate of late-stage lung cancer diagnoses in surrounding community

For the first time in decades, more people in the Bronx nearby Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center are being diagnosed with stage 1, versus stage 4 lung cancer.

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Vol.51 No.44

Podcast

Roy Herbst remembers the late Edward Chu, “the baritone of reason” and “a gentle giant”

Edward Chu, director of the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, died on Nov. 13 from glioblastoma. He was 66.

December 03, 2025

Vol.51 No.43

Podcast

Site visits are gone, but outlook for new, centralized CCSG review is bright

One of the first things that happened as part of President Donald Trump’s “flooding of the zone” in January was the disappearance of the site visit as part of the Cancer Center Support Grant review.

November 05, 2025

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After 51 years, Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center earns the Comprehensive designation

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Tens of thousands of healthcare workers strike across the country

The Directors: Joann Sweasy and Robert Winn reflect on lessons learned during a tough yearFormer and current AACI presidents agree: strategic communication is key to safeguarding the future of cancer research

With streamlined, “sitevisitless” CCSG review in place, cancer centers remained stable in 2025

Montefiore Einstein sees lowest rate of late-stage lung cancer diagnoses in surrounding community

Roy Herbst remembers the late Edward Chu, “the baritone of reason” and “a gentle giant”

Site visits are gone, but outlook for new, centralized CCSG review is bright

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The Directors: Joann Sweasy and Robert Winn reflect on lessons learned during a tough year
Former and current AACI presidents agree: strategic communication is key to safeguarding the future of cancer research