By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. […]
VOICES of Black Women, the largest population study of Black women in the United States, will be the first of American Cancer Society’s large-scale population studies to be initiated using an AI-driven data management platform—promising to bring observational cancer research out of the age of Excel data files and email sharing.
Source: Livestream of White House Africa Cancer Care ForumThe White House Cancer Moonshot is committing an additional $100 million to programs focused on reducing cancer burden in African countries.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it intends to start providing additional reimbursement for some high-cost drugs for people with Medicare who receive care at Indian Health Service or tribal hospitals, beginning Jan. 1, 2025.
The Biden administration has—for the second time—delayed the decision on a proposed FDA rule that would ban menthol cigarettes and all flavors in cigars.
Black patients are less likely than patients of other races and ethnicities to receive autologous hematopoietic cell transplants for multiple myeloma, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma, and Leukemia.
To address inequities in cancer health, NCI is collaborating with a diverse team of experts and cancer center directors—named the Cancer Equity Leaders (CEL)—to learn from communities and inform workforce development as well as outreach initiatives.
A study of over 100,000 United States veterans has found that housing for veterans with lung and colorectal cancer was associated with a survival benefit.
The ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group has renamed its Group Meeting Attendance Awards for Minority Trainees to the Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD Health Equity Travel Scholarships.
At a time of intensifying national polarization over critical race theory and affirmative action, leaders of cancer centers are faced with two challenges that appear to be diametrically at odds with each other
