Patricia Ganz will replace Carmen Allegra as editor-in-chief of JNCI.
Ruben Mesa was named director of the UT Health Cancer Center of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio.
Claire Verschraegen was appointed director of the Division of Medical Oncology and associate director of the Translational Research Program at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. Verschraegen also holds the Diane Nye and Michael Rayden Chair in Innovative Cancer Research and serves as... […]
Gideon Blumenthal has been appointed acting deputy office director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products at FDA. Blumenthal is a medical oncologist and serves as the associate director of precision therapeutics in OHOP. The appointment was announced by Richard Pazdur, director of the Oncology Center of Excellence and OHOP acting director. Blumenthal previously... […]
Epidemiologist Robert Haile has joined the faculty of the department of medicine, division of hematology-oncology at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. He will also be associate director for Translational Population Science. Most recently a professor in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, Haile brings to... […]
American Society for Radiation Oncology will award its annual Survivor Circle grants to two San Diego-based cancer support charities: Cancer Angels of San Diego and The Seany Foundation. Cancer Angels of San Diego was founded in 2007 after founder and president Eve Beutler met a single mother with stage IV breast cancer who was having... […]
A new partnership between the American Cancer Society and the Melanoma Research Alliance will fund research aimed at decreasing side effects associated with checkpoint inhibitors in hopes of increasing further cancer immunotherapy benefits. FDA has approved use of checkpoint drugs to combat seven cancer types including lung, head and neck, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, Merkel... […]
Michael Joiner, a professor in the division of radiation oncology, department of oncology, at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine, will be honored by the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology with the 2018 ESTRO Lifetime Achievement Award. Joiner is the first American to receive the award since... […]
CancerCare has established the CancerCare Patient Values Initiative, a multi-pronged effort with an aim to reframe the national healthcare policy dialogue to include issues important to patients and their families.
Rectal cancer programs interested in earning accreditation from the new National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer may apply for participation in the program. The goal of the NAPRC is to ensure rectal cancer patients receive appropriate care using a multidisciplinary approach.
