Almost 35 years ago, while the nation suffered in the vicious grip of the HIV epidemic, a young man from South Carolina with AIDS named Boyd Helton found his way to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. While there, he was recruited into a clinical research protocol designed to lower the expression of viral proteins in his blood, and, ideally, to increase the numbers of his circulating CD4+ T-cells.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center has achieved comprehensive status—becoming the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center in Indiana.
After six years of aggressively recruiting and spending more than $250 million to build up its programs, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has become the 71st NCI-designated cancer center in the US and the only such institution in South Florida.
UToronto researchers: Women with cervical cancer had poorer outcomes with minimally invasive surgery
A retrospective study of nearly 1,000 women who underwent surgery for early-stage cervical cancer showed that minimally invasive radical hysterectomy was associated with double the rate of death and recurrence—at a population level over 10 years in Ontario, Canada.
Women who underwent minimally invasive radical hysterectomies had twofold the rate of death and cervical cancer recurrence, compared to women who received open radical hysterectomies, according to a large retrospective study conducted by researchers at the University of Toronto.
Amarinthia Curtis has a community doctor's perspective on the scientific questions the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial seeks to address.
I have devoted my career to improving care for people living with cancer. It wasn't until my father was diagnosed with head and neck cancer that I realized just how complex navigating the cancer care experience can be—and how much I had to learn as a caregiver. To improve the lives of people living with cancer, we must focus on more than treatment and address care holistically.
Readers will be pleased to learn this is the final installment of my reviews of the HBO Chernobyl miniseries, which just ended its TV run June 3. The series, which has received extraordinary critical acclaim, had a vast global audience.
Last December, Flatiron Health convened a “hackathon,” an event where programmers, developers, and scientists pitch novel ideas and aggressively crunch data in a competitive sprint.
The Cancer Letter won four 2019 Dateline Awards from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists:
