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.
On April 17, Louis Weiner found himself wishing he could be in two places at once—dance at two weddings, as it were.
Ralph Lauren wasn’t interested in an eponymous cancer center when, in 2003, he helped establish the first Ralph Lauren Center in Harlem.
