As the third-largest nonprofit health system nationwide, Advocate Health treats nearly 50,000 new cancer cases annually. The integrated system has a unique opportunity to leverage its scale to advance complex cancer care and improve health outcomes across its various markets.
Liquid biopsy tests may someday upend screening as we know it. The promise of broad screening employing “multi-cancer detection” has spawned consortia and inspired enthusiastic opinion articles.
Today’s traditional research model relies on incremental innovation that builds upon the shoulders of other researchers’ work, making small but steady strides. Occasionally, leaps are made by researchers who develop new classes of therapy such as stem cell transplant or CAR-T immunotherapy. But cancer patients may not have the luxury to wait 20 years for the traditional scientific process to evolve for their cancer. They can’t wait for a cure.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month kicked off this week, and this is a monumental one for us at the American Cancer Society.
Many readers of The Cancer Letter will have seen or at least be aware of the buzz surrounding release of the new “Oppenheimer” movie, which has received excellent reviews.
Letter to the editor by The Philadelphia Inquirer’s James NeffWe see far too many patients with glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive and almost always fatal malignant brain tumor.
On Oct. 5, the FDA Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee will meet to consider full approval of the supplemental new drug application for Amgen’s agent Lumakras (sotorasib), based on the CodeBreak 200 study.
Globally, about 18 million people will be diagnosed with cancer and approximately 10 million people will die from cancer this year. Between 30–50% of these cancer cases are potentially preventable today, a fact that highlights that prevention remains one of the most effective and cost-effective long-term strategies to reduce the global cancer burden.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility, the largest in Europe, with six reactors, has been under Russian control since March, 4, 2022.
Progress against cancer, as brought about by high quality academic cancer centers, requires individual excellence from experts who apply distinct, highly specific skill sets to a common goal within the cancer center. The cancer center coordinates and supports these efforts.
