Rich Preyer and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer of Hillsborough, North Carolina donated $1 million to support the latest phase of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Carolina Breast Cancer Study, which is investigating how the causes, treatments, and long-term outcomes of breast cancer differ between Black and white women.
One in seven cancer patients around the world missed out on potentially life-saving operations during COVID-19 lockdowns, a study from the University of Birmingham in the U.K. found.
A study from USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of Keck Medicine, showed that while cases of hepatocellular carcinoma have begun slowing in urban communities in the U.S., the incidence of the cancer is rising at a rate of 5.7% annually in rural areas, approaching urban rates.
The Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education—part of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine—published its first collaborative resource: a Guidance Document on Measuring Sexual Harassment Prevalence Using Campus Climate Surveys.
Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) showed that chronic physiologic “wear and tear” from stress, known as allostatic load, may be associated with a decreased likelihood of cancer treatment completion and lower overall survival.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and the Mayo Clinic have discovered a way to supercharge molecular cancer treatments to destroy more cancer-causing proteins in cells.
The Lung Cancer Master Protocol public-private partnership—which includes the NCI, the National Clinical Trials Network Cooperative Groups (SWOG, ECOG-ACRIN, Alliance, and NRG), Friends of Cancer Research, and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health—will study the IL-15 receptor superagonist complex Anktiva (N-803) in the Lung-MAP clinical trial.
According to researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, pairing a newly developed gel with immunotherapy that was delivered to post-surgical mouse brains with glioblastoma improved the immunotherapy’s effectiveness.
Tecartus (brexucabtagene autoleucel) received FDA approval for adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The FDA granted recognition to a partial listing of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Oncology Knowledge Base (OncoKB) as the first tumor mutation database to be included in the Public Human Genetic Variant Databases.
