In my twenty-two years of practicing medicine, I have observed the evolution of genomic testing and its increasing utility in oncology.
Cornelius Melief received the European Society for Medical Oncology 2018 ESMO Immuno-Oncology Award in recognition of his life’s work in studying the interactions of the immune system with cancer. The distinction will be officially presented to him at the opening keynote and award lecture of this year’s ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress in Geneva in December. “Professor […]
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has formed an academic cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The collaboration will see the two centers exchanging staff, students and scientific resources to undertake basic, translational and clinical research in order to advance the development of cancer therapies. The agreement grew out of a July 2018 visit by […]
Indiana University School of Medicine cancer researchers who have been working to lessen the side effects caused by chemotherapy have been awarded $2.3 million to continue their studies. Jill Fehrenbacher and Mark Kelley are recipients of the five-year grant (1R01CA231267) from NCI, which will enable them to continue their studies on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy. The […]
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship presented the third annual Ellen L. Stovall Award for Innovation in Patient-Centered Cancer Care to Gay Crawford, founding director of Cancer CAREpoint, and Norman Coleman, senior investigator at NCI. Since her diagnosis of breast cancer at age 30, Crawford spent the last 44 years playing a leadership role in […]
A husband-and-wife team at the University of Virginia Cancer Center have been awarded more than $1.8 million from NCI (R01 CA214594-01A1) for their effort to improve radiation therapy and breast surgery for patient with early-stage breast cancer. Radiation oncologist Timothy Showalter and breast cancer surgeon Shayna Showalter are leading an interdisciplinary effort to evaluate a […]
Oct. 25, we heard more about President Trump's plan to save health care dollars through a variety of Medicare pilot programs and index pricing.
Heinz Von Foerster, the renowned Austrian-American physicist and cybernetics scholar, declared that “information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.1” Ever-increasing amounts of digital data and new computational tools promise that technological developments such as artificial intelligence (AI) will bring order, clarity, and new solutions in multiple areas—from transportation to criminal justice.
Arti Hurria, a pioneer of geriatric cancer care at City of Hope, died Nov. 7 in a traffic accident. She was 48.
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
