Christopher Li, the Helen G. Edson Endowed Chair for Breast Cancer Research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, understands what it means to be an underrepresented minority at each stage of his academic career.
The American Cancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology have combined their cancer information resources, which will be available at no cost to the public on cancer.org. The collaboration, which combines the two organizations’ sites—ACS’s cancer.org and ASCO’s cancer.net—was announced at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago May 1. Cancer.org is now […]
Homologous recombination deficiency tests are available from multiple vendors, and every day they are used to determine whether patients stand to benefit from PARP inhibitors.
Lillian L. Siu discovered her passion while perusing employment ads in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Over the past three years, the American Cancer Society has recovered from the fundraising decline brought on by COVID-19 and has reversed the years-long fundraising slump in public support.
All women should start screening for breast cancer at age 40, with biennial screening continuing through age 74, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said in its final recommendation statement April 30.
Sylvester’s C. Ola Landgren: “I was convinced that this is really the way to go”
Can AI-enabled technology safeguard hospitals, pharmacies, and medical devices from cyberattacks?
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health can add the word “Comprehensive” to its name, becoming the 57th institution to earn this top-level designation from NCI.
A previous version of this story stated incorrectly that seven institutions split the role of director in two. The original list omitted Fox Chase Cancer Center. Read more.Slowly, over the past two decades, at least eight major cancer centers have changed their organizational structures, splitting the job of the cancer center director into two boxes on the org chart: (1) the chief executive, and (2) the scientist in charge of the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant.
