National Cancer Registrars Association launches campaign to protect U.S. cancer registries

Anthony Letai sworn in as 18th NCI director

Anthony G. Letai, accompanied by his wife Jean, was sworn in by HHS Secretary Kennedy as the 18th NCI Director on Sept. 29.Anthony G. Letai, a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been officially named the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute.

October 03, 2025

Vol.51 No.36

By Claire Marie Porter

In Brief

Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center awarded $12M NIH SPORE grant to advance breast cancer research

From left to right: Geoffrey Shapiro, Leif Ellisen and Nancy Lin. Sitting below them is Kornelia Polyak.The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, a cancer research consortium comprised of five of Boston’s academic medical centers, including Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, has been awarded an NCI grant to continue its Specialized Program of Research Excellence in Breast Cancer.

October 03, 2025

Vol.51 No.36

Cancer Policy

Trump claims that autism is caused by Tylenol use during pregnancy, advises to “fight like hell not to take it”

In a press conference on Sept. 22, President Donald Trump, flanked by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, touted that Tylenol use while pregnant is “probably” the cause of autism.

September 26, 2025

Vol.51 No.35

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

Bhattacharya: New grant review criterion is “not political”

NIH’s new “unified grant funding policy,” is “not political,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said during his remarks at Research!America’s annual National Health Research Forum Sept. 17.

Ousted CDC director testifies before Senate HELP Committee

Ousted from her position as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a month after her confirmation, Susan Monarez has now had the chance to tell her side of the story before Congress.

September 19, 2025

Vol.51 No.34

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

CDC’s ACIP makes changes to childhood vaccine recommendations in first meeting since Monarez’s ouster

At a two-day meeting, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to change the current recommendations that allow children under age 4 to receive the MMRV vaccine, a combination shot for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (or varicella).

September 19, 2025

Vol.51 No.34

By Claire Marie Porter

National Cancer Registrars Association launches campaign to protect U.S. cancer registries

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