Senate Finance Committee advances RFK Jr. to likely confirmation, with Bill Cassidy (R-LA) casting the deciding vote

Bhattacharya provides calm answers to anxious questions at confirmation hearing
Trump nominee for NIH director calls for transparency, audits of indirect costs

Amid the flood zone of today’s Washington, the confirmation hearing for Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya’s nomination as director of NIH was remarkably calm.

Survey reveals most Americans are uninformed about HPV
A vaccine can prevent cancer—most people don’t take it

Each year, nearly 14 million people in the U.S. contract human papillomavirus, a common, sexually-transmitted virus that can cause several cancers.

March 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.09

By Claire Marie Porter

Podcast

In The Headlines: What’s up with the U.S. cancer incidence rate?

In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about controversial data cited in Trump’s “Make American Healthy Again” executive order that claims that the U.S. has the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer globally. But where did that data come from?

February 26, 2025

Vol.51 No.07

White House

“The Agency finds you are not fit…”
HHS notifications of firing add insult to injury

An estimated 5,200 of HHS employees have been fired during the course of this week. Since the firings are ongoing, no final tally of their extent exists. At this writing, approximately 1,200 of the fired HHS employees were working at NIH, about 700 at FDA, and 750 at CDC.

February 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.07

By Claire Marie Porter

News Analysis

Trump executive order to “Make America Healthy Again” cites questionable data from Wuhan
White House cites paper in pay-to-play journal claiming that U.S. has highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer

Cancer data quoted in President Trump’s executive order last week have raised eyebrows among experts in cancer epidemiology.

Cancer vaccine shows promise for patients with stage 3 and 4 kidney cancer

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers report that all nine patients in a clinical trial being treated for stage 3 or 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma generated a successful anti-cancer immune response after initiation of a personalized cancer vaccine.

February 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.05

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Bhattacharya provides calm answers to anxious questions at confirmation hearing
Trump nominee for NIH director calls for transparency, audits of indirect costs

Survey reveals most Americans are uninformed about HPV
A vaccine can prevent cancer—most people don’t take it

“The Agency finds you are not fit…”
HHS notifications of firing add insult to injury

Trump executive order to “Make America Healthy Again” cites questionable data from Wuhan
White House cites paper in pay-to-play journal claiming that U.S. has highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer