The standard of care in HPV vaccination may soon change if a one-dose regimen is found to be just as efficacious as two or three doses—once a large trial that NCI is conducting in Costa Rica, in young women ages 12 to 16, is ready to report final results in a few years. “We’ve done […]
Scientists used to dismiss the notion that the Y chromosome plays a role in cancer.
On June 29, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that reverses 45 years of legal precedent in admissions at institutions of higher learning, striking a death blow to affirmative action.
The Sunderland Foundation has given The University of Kansas Cancer Center a $100 million gift to construct a cancer center building.
The University of Florida Health Cancer Center has received NCI Cancer Center designation.
VCU Massey Cancer Center can now add the word “Comprehensive” to its name.
Today’s critical shortage of cisplatin and carboplatin occurred because manufacturers failed to invest in enhancing production capacity, Richard Pazdur, director of the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence and acting director of the Office of Oncologic Diseases, said to The Cancer Letter.
The shortage of platinum-based drugs in the United States is an endemic problem—i.e., Europe is unaffected—caused by the absence of transparency, dearth of early warnings, and a lack of redundancy in the supply chain.
Leukemia was mostly a fatal disease when Hagop Kantarjian, a medical student at the American University of Lebanon in Beirut, first came to MD Anderson in 1978.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s latest draft recommendation on breast cancer screening is based in part on data on racial disparities in breast cancer mortality.