Leonidas C. Platanias spoke with Alexandria Carolan, a reporter with The Cancer Letter:
Pamela Kunz said she left Stanford School of Medicine because of years of gender-related microaggressions and verbal abuse she experienced there.
The American Association of Cancer Research Sept. 16 published a comprehensive report on disparities in cancer, describing in deep detail the outsized toll that cancer exacts on racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations.
On Jan. 6, Barry P. Sleckman’s started his job as director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
NCI's publicly announced move to create an ad hoc working group that would review the feasibility and viability of the TMIST trial threatens to undercut this trial, said Mitchell Schnall, co-chair of ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, the group conducting the study.
In 1971, when the National Cancer Act was signed, Walter Lawrence, Jr., was one of the surgeons eager for a push forward, driven by rigorous science reviewed and funded by the federal government.
Raymond N. DuBois was named director of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center effective Aug. 17.
Stephen Nimer: Cancer patients are coming in for treatment, Florida’s COVID-19 spike notwithstanding
“Our chemotherapy and radiation therapy volumes have been very robust. Probably because of the NCI designation, we are seeing significantly more patients than last year,” Stephen D. Nimer, director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, said to The Cancer Letter. “Compared to last year, we seem to be up about 15%. We’ve been growing by about 8% to 9% for quite some years. This year is even more.”
