THE DEATH OF CANCER After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable–and How We Can Get There. By Vincent T. DeVita, Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn; Illustrated. 336 pp. Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. $28.00“The Emperor of All Maladies” was a history of oncology, and a good one. “The Death of Cancer” is a memoir of one of the greats of medical oncology. It is a history from someone who was there, making history.
Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has seen the cancer field as a confident young doc eager to challenge the system, as a general in the War on Cancer, as an academic oncologist and, most recently, as a patient.
SRI INTERNATIONAL was awarded a contract of up to $9 million to provide preclinical development services to the NCI PREVENT Cancer Program. Under the contract, SRI will provide scientific expertise, modern testing and support facilities, and analytical instrumentation to conduct a wide variety of preclinical pharmacology and toxicology studies to evaluate potential cancer prevention drugs. […]
CANCERCARE announced the availability of co-payment assistance for pancreatic cancer patients through the CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation. People receiving assistance from CCAF also have access to the full array of CancerCare services, including counseling, support groups, resource referrals, publications, education and financial assistance with treatment-related expenses such as transportation and child care. “We are thrilled […]
A Boston judge ruled Nov. 3 that Brigham & Women's Hospital had violated the First Amendment rights of a couple who led an aggressive national campaign to stop power morcellation, a surgical procedure routinely used by gynecologists.
THE KNIGHT CANCER INSTITUTE at Oregon Health & Science University launched a program to aid communities statewide in addressing cancer-related needs.
MERCK SERONO awarded its first Grant for Oncology Innovation, who will receive grants totaling EUR 1 million. The grant supports researchers focused on personalized treatment of solid tumors.
Eli Lilly & Co. didn't ask Dan Goldstein, an oncologist at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, to price their drugs, but he volunteered his services anyway.
KIDS V CANCER was awarded the 2015 Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation for its role in the 2012 Creating Hope Act. Kids v Cancer was chosen out of 655 applicants from nonprofits.
The American Cancer Society published a breast cancer screening guideline that steers toward the middle course in deciding when mammography screening should start and how often it should be performed.
