Clinical

Hybrid cancer centers exploring links with NCI-designated institutions
FreeTrials & Tribulations

Hybrid cancer centers exploring links with NCI-designated institutions

Despite the many advances in oncology, important problems continue to beset the field, including rapidly rising costs, uneven patterns of care, and poor access to (and participation in) cancer trials. A model that has been recently developed and tested to address these issues is the so-called academic hybrid community cancer center.
How disease-specific clinical trial finders can address gaps in study participation
FreeTrials & Tribulations

How disease-specific clinical trial finders can address gaps in study participation

As a cancer patient advocacy organization—especially one dedicated to a category of malignancies that have seen frustratingly slow progress and only negligible improvements in survival rates over the past four-plus decades—we've come to view our role and responsibility to the brain tumor community as something like that of a plumber.