Camille Ragin, associate professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, received a grant from NIH to create a center of research excellence at the University of the West Indies, a regional university with its main campus in Jamaica.
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.
