Radiation oncologists across the country met virtually with members of Congress this week to urge lawmakers to pass legislation that will safeguard access to high-quality, value-based health care for people with cancer.
Abraham Chachoua was named director of the Lung Cancer Center at Perlmutter Cancer Center.
Researchers with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have received $5 million in funding from NCI to establish an HIV-associated Malignancy Research Center focused on lung cancer in East Africa.
John Turchi receives $2.9 million from NCI to improve effectiveness of lung cancer radiation therapy
John Turchi, a researcher at Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded a five-year, $2.9 million grant from NCI to develop a drug that could make radiation therapy far more effective.
The Michael J. Crescence VA Medical Center in Philadelphia and VA Boston Medical Health Center in Boston have both received $50,000 grants from SWOG Cancer Research Network and The Hope Foundation for Cancer Research.
The US Oncology Network has enrolled its 100,000th patient in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's Oncology Care Model.
Cardiothoracic surgeon Timothy W. Mullett, medical director of the Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network, was named chair of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.
Donna D. Zhang, of University of Arizona Health Sciences, has received an eight-year, $7.3 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to determine how a family of proteins can be harnessed to prevent or treat arsenic-induced lung cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
The American Association for Cancer Research said its 2021 meeting will be virtual.
C. Ola Landgren was named director of the Experimental Therapeutics Program at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami.
