MD Anderson Cancer Center has been censured by the American Association of University Professors, an organization that defends academic freedom and shared governance.
Wallace Ira Sampson, a longtime “quackbuster,” emeritus clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University, and former director of oncology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, died May 25 following a three-month hospital stay for complications following cardiac surgery. He was 85.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly trying to establish whether Johnson & Johnson—one of the largest manufacturers of power morcellators—knew as early as nine years ago that the gynecological device can disseminate uterine cancers.
Anil Potti, in a Duke commercial advertising the trial Shoffner joined.Joyce Shoffner would never have predicted that Duke University, an institution she revered and at one time worked for, would put her in a breast cancer clinical trial testing a fraudulent technology.
A year ago, Fox Chase Cancer Center lost money: $17 million. In 2015, the losses have stopped, and an $8 million operating profit is projected.
The cancer field is filled with advocates—advocates for research into specific forms of malignancy, advocates for access to care for patients with limited resources, advocates for pediatric cancers—you name it. Many of these people are motivated, passionate, determined, and successful in moving their specific agendas forward in the interests of patients, clinicians, researchers, and others.
JOSEPH GULFO was named executive director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Health Canada approved a new indication for the use of Xtandi (enzalutamide) capsules to treat patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic after failure of androgen deprivation therapy.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY Center for Cancer Research was renewed as an NCI-designated basic science cancer center, and was awarded $8 million in funding over the next five years. In its review, the institute rated the center as “outstanding.”
President Barack Obama signed the Medicare Access and Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act on April 14, permanently repealing the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula.
