More than 850 children with cancer have been evacuated or are in the process of evacuation from Ukraine, 45 days after a collaboration of international organizations began transporting pediatric cancer patients out of the country.
On March 7, or 11 days into Russia invasion, Mike Morrissey, chief executive of the European Cancer Organisation, approached the society’s board to inquire as to whether they should convene a special network for Ukraine.
After nearly five years in the federal government—at both NCI and FDA—Ned Sharpless is stepping down from his position as NCI director.
Chemotherapy at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute in Kyiv no longer has to be administered in underground bomb shelters.
Cancer centers don’t usually ask NCI to increase their catchment areas. That’s because including more people and more square miles means increasing the responsibility to show impact.
James Allison has reshaped cancer drug development, making checkpoint inhibitors a staple of therapy in many key indications—and dramatically improving survival outcomes in previously recalcitrant diseases.
Carol Fabian recalls the emotional hardship that came with treating women for breast cancer in the 1970s and eighties.
After ferrying her son to safety across the Hungarian border, Nataliia Verovkina has returned to Kyiv to resume treating cancer patients.
Nataliia Verovkina, a medical oncologist and research fellow at the National Cancer Institute of Ukraine, is now in the town of Vinnytsia, having travelled there from Kyiv to get her son away from the war zone.
Oleksandr Stakhovskyi, a urologist and oncologic surgeon at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute, is staying in Kyiv to treat cancer patients as the Russian invasion continues.
