D. Gary Gilliland, president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, plans to step down in 2020, the cancer center announced Sept. 17.
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.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center has achieved comprehensive status—becoming the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in Indiana.
After six years of aggressively recruiting and spending more than $250 million to build up its programs, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has become the 71st NCI-designated cancer center in the US and the only such institution in South Florida.
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%.
Researchers looking to aggregate and harmonize genomic data—a critical undertaking that would empower translational research in pediatric oncology—will face technical complexities that exceed the challenges of enabling interoperability between electronic health record systems, said Jinghui Zhang, the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics and chair of the Department of Computational Biology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
UToronto researchers: Women with cervical cancer had poorer outcomes with minimally invasive surgery
A retrospective study of nearly 1,000 women who underwent surgery for early-stage cervical cancer showed that minimally invasive radical hysterectomy was associated with double the rate of death and recurrence—at a population level over 10 years in Ontario, Canada.
Amarinthia Curtis has a community doctor's perspective on the scientific questions the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial seeks to address.
The Wistar Institute Cancer Center and Christiana Care Health System's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute started a formal collaboration a decade ago.
A report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends that HHS and other federal agencies form an independent organization that would rely on complex adaptive sysytems to direct cancer control in the U.S.
