Conversation with The Cancer Letter

City of Hope invests more than $1B to build a second campus in Irvine, Orange County

City of Hope is building a $1 billion cancer campus, located on a former air force base in the Great Park neighborhood of Orange County, CA.

June 28, 2019

Vol.45 No.26

Flatiron’s Adamson: Medicaid disparities study shows real world data is valuable for assessing policy

Before 2019, Blythe Adamson, a senior quantitative scientist at Flatiron Health, had never attended an annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

June 21, 2019

Vol.45 No.25

FDA’s Project Facilitate uses a call center to streamline access to unapproved cancer therapies

The FDA Oncology Center of Excellence announced a pilot program to help physicians get access to unapproved therapies for patients with cancer.

June 14, 2019

Vol.45 No.24

ASCO’s Miller: mCODE will improve downstream analytics with essential cancer data elements

The mCODE initiative, developed by American Society of Clinical Oncology and its partners, aims to optimize electronic health records to answer research questions on drug efficacy and patient outcomes.

June 07, 2019

Vol.45 No.23

Project ECHO brings specialized knowledge to rural providers

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.

May 31, 2019

Vol.45 No.22

By Claire Dietz

Fotopoulos: Monmouth Medical Center told us to not follow up with robotic mastectomy patients

As the team lead by surgeon Stephen Chagares prepared a protocol for robotically-assisted mastectomy, the Institutional Review Board at Monmouth Medical Center provided guidance “every step of the way,” said Nicholas Fotopoulos, a research coordinator and an undergraduate at Princeton University in his sophomore year.

May 31, 2019

Vol.45 No.22

Libutti: How Rutgers Cancer Institute became a New Jersey-sized colossus

When NCI renewed the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation for Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, it also acknowledged that the institution's catchment area now covers the entire state of New Jersey, having expanded from roughly three counties around its home location of New Brunswick.

May 17, 2019

Vol.45 No.20

Georgetown’s Weiner and Hackensack’s Pecora tell us how they created a consortium spanning 233 miles

Georgetown's Louis M. Weiner and Hackensack's Andrew L. Pecora started to discuss forming a consortium in 2011, roughly at the time when it became clear that conferencing and data transfer technologies were making it possible for cancer centers located hundreds of miles apart to operate in a coordinated manner.

May 10, 2019

Vol.45 No.19

Hirsch: Syapse collaboration with Amgen will focus on real world evidence and hematologic malignancies

Syapse, a precision medicine company with a data sharing network, has announced a collaboration with Amgen to use analytics and real world evidence to support drug development.

May 03, 2019

Vol.45 No.18