Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor in men. It has been estimated that 60-75 percent of men will have histologic evidence of prostate cancer during their lifetime and that 2-4 percent of men will die of the disease. African American men are at a greater risk of diagnosis and death.
In recent years, NCI spending on extramural research has been following the same trajectory as Congressional appropriations for the institute: up, up, up.
Thomas Jefferson University is vying to acquire Fox Chase Cancer Center from its current owner, Temple University, the two institutions announced Jan. 10.
John Mendelsohn, president emeritus of MD Anderson Cancer Center and an elder statesman in oncology, died Jan. 7 at his home in Houston. He was 82.
Waun Ki Hong, M.D., F.A.C.P., D.M.Sc.(Hon.), Head, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, October 22, 2013. For Messenger- First Person.Yesterday, I received a succession of phone calls through the afternoon and evening—from Roy Herbst, chief of medical oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, Marge Foti, president of the American Association for Cancer Research, Patrick Hwu, head of the Division of Cancer Medicine at the MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC), and Otis Brawley, professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University.
FDA has created a framework for evaluating the use of real-world evidence to support additional indications for already approved drugs as well as to satisfy drug post-marketing study requirements.
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Around March, my friend Howard Ozer told me he was heading out on a safari. He did these things often, adding to his collection of trophies.
Lisa Schwartz, professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School died on November 29 after a seven-year struggle with cancer—a terrible loss to all who knew her.
NCI is cutting the budgets of divisions, offices, and centers within the institute by 5 percent to maintain funding for its Research Project Grant pool, which funds a broad range of basic research, as well as clinical trials and health services research.
