Oncology pioneer John W. Yarbro, MD, PhD, died April 13 in Miramar Beach, Florida. He was 88.
We moved to Houston together with Rosemary's daughters, Catharine and Claire, in August of 1983 when Irv accepted the position of head of the Division of Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Isaiah “Josh” Fidler, DVM, PhD, died on May 8, at his home in Houston following a long illness.
The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to expectations of global deaths numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Promising therapeutic strategies have emerged slower than society would prefer. COVID-related deaths in the United States exceed 86,000 as of this writing, with projections as high as 134,000.
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors has approved 11 new and reissue concepts—Request for Applications, Cooperative Agreement, Request for Proposals, and Program Announcement with special receipt, referral and review.
Delayed cancer diagnoses, deferred care, and postponed surgeries amid the COVID-19 pandemic will adversely impact cancer outcomes, which may show up as an increase in cancer mortality in the next few years, said NCI Director Ned Sharpless.
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors has approved concepts for an RFA and an RFP to support research in serological testing.
Nancy Davidson is now in the eleventh week of managing the COVID-19 pandemic—the longest stretch experienced by any health executive in the U.S.
As the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia prepare to loosen pandemic restrictions and reopen economies, hospital networks and academic cancer centers brace for a potential uptick in SARS-CoV-2 infections.
In the first effort of its sort, The Cancer Letter has compiled a damage assessment, gauging the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, gathering information on populations that were struck hardest, and quantifying impact on academic cancer centers and large hospital systems.
