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.
Next week, NCI will announce its plans for surviving on an austere budget given to it by Congress as fiscal year 2024 approaches the six-month mark.
Soon after he was diagnosed with a dedifferentiated liposarcoma, C. Norman Coleman reached out to The Cancer Letter and the Cancer History Project to initiate a series of interviews about his life and career.
When conducting a randomized clinical trial of a treatment regimen based on an immune checkpoint inhibitor, trial sponsors should include overall survival as an endpoint, FDA officials say.
Sometimes in oncology, you get “beat-the-reaper” stories.
As a new deputy director at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Monica Baskin has assumed a level of responsibility that is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a population scientist at an NCI-designated cancer center.
