If the mortality rate for lung cancer is starting to fall of a cliff in part because of treatment effect—contributing to more than a third of the 2.2% decline in overall cancer mortality from 2016 to 2017—is that signal showing up on the radar of NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program?
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
