SUSAN G. KOMEN named 16 Komen Scholars, an international advisory group for the charity. The new members join 44 current scholars who have advised Komen in a variety of capacities since 2010, including a primary responsibility of leading and participating in the annual peer-review process that Komen uses to fund its breast cancer research program....
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.
