Philip J. Stella, the principal investigator of the Michigan Cancer Research Consortium NCI Community Oncology Research Program site in Ann Arbor, won the 2019 Harry Hynes Award.
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), 1,735,350 people were newly diagnosed with cancer in 2018. Of those, 65% are expected to achieve remission from their cancer 1.
The founding partners of the Lung Ambition Alliance launched the group July 8 with the primary objective of doubling five-year survival rates for patients with lung cancer—up to 40%.
The recently formed Lung Ambition Alliance seeks to double the five-year survival rate for lung cancer—up to 40%, by 2025.
Amarinthia Curtis has a community doctor's perspective on the scientific questions the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial seeks to address.
Nearly three years after its introduction, the CMS's Oncology Care Model (OCM) remains the most ambitious and far-reaching initiative to shift cancer care toward value-based models.
The Cancer Letter won four 2019 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists:
The FDA Oncology Center of Excellence announced a pilot program to help physicians get access to unapproved therapies for patients with cancer.
Project ECHO, a service that provides physicians in rural areas with access to multidisciplinary expertise, will soon announce partnerships with four cancer centers—Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Yale Cancer Center.
Over the past decade there has been much consternation about overdiagnosis, the detection of cancers that would not have been diagnosed without screening.