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The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural America “We’re just going to have to ride through this and not give up.”

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Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural America

“We’re just going to have to ride through this and not give up.”

By Paul Goldberg

How are cancer centers in two rural states—Kansas and South Carolina—weathering the challenges of Trump-era belt-tightening and uncertainty? Their directors weigh in on The Cancer Letter Podcast.

Regulatory News

Backlog of work grows at NIH as staff members are being hounded to quit

By Paul Goldberg, Jacquelyn Cobb and Claire Marie Porter

Guest Editorial

Rathmell: My mentor recognized a cliff I was going to fall off before I did.
“He was there to stand with me while I fell, and then made me look up and see that I needed to lean into the experience.”

By W. Kimryn Rathmell

Guest Editorial

In support of three coordinated CCSG components reducing our national burden of cancer

By Shine Chang, Michaela A. Dinan and Miria Kano

Guest Editorial

New drugs don’t appear out of thin air

By William Pao

Accelerating translational research in leukemia: The City of Hope approach

By Guido Marcucci

In Brief

W. Kimryn Rathmell awarded the ACS 2025 Medal of Honor

AACR names 2025 fellows of AACR Academy, AACR Academy president

Kathy Giusti joins Thyme Care as strategic advisor for patient experience

Tari King appointed chief surgical officer for cancer service line, co-director of Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship, chief of Division of Breast Surgery at Emory

Matteo Paz wins 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search

Funding Opportunities

The Stephenson Global Prize and Stephenson Global Scholar Grants calls for nominations, letters of intent

Clinical Roundup

Increase in cervical cancer rates seen in rural U.S. counties

American College of Radiology to form early lung cancer detection registry

Florida leukemia rates rising rapidly as population ages, study shows

Chemo-immunotherapy approach shows potential benefit in advanced HPV-negative head-and-neck cancer

Investigational drug found to more than double survival time for glioblastoma patients in phase I study

Scientists identify strategy to fight cancer caused by Epstein-Barr virus

Pitt study offers insights into ovarian cancer’s origins

Combination therapy may overcome drug resistance in lung cancer with common KRAS mutation

Self-driving microscope solves previous challenges in microscopy

Mayo Clinic researchers identify proteins linked to immunotherapy resistance in metastatic CRC

Drugs & Targets

EC approves Opdivo + Yervoy as first-line treatment for HCC

China’s National Medical Products Administration grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to olverembatinib for Ph+ ALL

FDA grants Orphan Drug designation to rhenium obisbemeda for leptomeningeal metastases in lung cancer

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The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural America

Backlog of work grows at NIH as staff members are being hounded to quit

Rathmell: My mentor recognized a cliff I was going to fall off before I did.
“He was there to stand with me while I fell, and then made me look up and see that I needed to lean into the experience.”

In support of three coordinated CCSG components reducing our national burden of cancer

New drugs don’t appear out of thin air

Accelerating translational research in leukemia: The City of Hope approach

In Brief

W. Kimryn Rathmell awarded the ACS 2025 Medal of Honor

AACR names 2025 fellows of AACR Academy, AACR Academy president

Kathy Giusti joins Thyme Care as strategic advisor for patient experience

Tari King appointed chief surgical officer for cancer service line, co-director of Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship, chief of Division of Breast Surgery at Emory

Matteo Paz wins 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search

Funding Opportunities

The Stephenson Global Prize and Stephenson Global Scholar Grants calls for nominations, letters of intent

Clinical Roundup

Increase in cervical cancer rates seen in rural U.S. counties

American College of Radiology to form early lung cancer detection registry

Florida leukemia rates rising rapidly as population ages, study shows

Chemo-immunotherapy approach shows potential benefit in advanced HPV-negative head-and-neck cancer

Investigational drug found to more than double survival time for glioblastoma patients in phase I study

Scientists identify strategy to fight cancer caused by Epstein-Barr virus

Pitt study offers insights into ovarian cancer’s origins

Combination therapy may overcome drug resistance in lung cancer with common KRAS mutation

Self-driving microscope solves previous challenges in microscopy

Mayo Clinic researchers identify proteins linked to immunotherapy resistance in metastatic CRC

Drugs & Targets

EC approves Opdivo + Yervoy as first-line treatment for HCC

China’s National Medical Products Administration grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to olverembatinib for Ph+ ALL

FDA grants Orphan Drug designation to rhenium obisbemeda for leptomeningeal metastases in lung cancer

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