Over the past week, as cancer control experts scoured through a confidential budget document called the “passback” budget, they haven’t been able to find any trace of a relatively small but highly impactful program that funds state cancer registries.
Richard Pazdur, FDA’s top oncologist who last week received a battlefield promotion to the role of director of the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, is described as a stabilizing figure respected by major patient groups, oncology professional societies, and the industry.
