THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS launched the Metastatic Breast Cancer Project to address communications challenges faced by patients. ACCC is partnering with the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, the Cancer Support Community, and the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance on this education initiative, with funding and support from Pfizer Oncology. “The public has a limited knowledge... […]
FDA finalized efforts to streamline the process used by physicians to request expanded access, often called compassionate use, to investigational drugs and biologics, as well as two guidance documents. “As a physician, I understand the importance of being able to access investigational treatments for a patient when there are no other options to treat their... […]
RALPH DE VERE WHITE, long-time director of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, plans to step down June 29. A distinguished professor of urology who was cancer center director for 20 years, De Vere White will continue to serve in a research capacity part-time.
LIGHTPOINT MEDICAL signed an exclusive global license agreement for Beta Emission Tomography molecular imaging technology, developed by Harrison Barrett, regents professor of radiology and optical science, with his student Yijun Ding and colleague Luca Caucci at the University of Arizona Center for Gamma Ray Imaging. Barrett and his team have developed a novel approach to... […]
THE AMERICAN SKIN ASSOCIATION presented several awards for cancer research during the annual meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology. Barbara Gilchrest, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, received the David Martin Carter Mentor Award. Gilchrest is the editor-in-chief of The Journal for Investigative Dermatology and former president of both the Society for... […]
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois launched an oncology intensive medical home program. The UCMedicine IMH will treat qualifying PPO patients receiving chemotherapy for a cancer diagnosis of breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, prostate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “In conjunction with the oncologists at UCMedicine, we will be utilizing the latest... […]
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING Cancer Center and Hunter Douglas established the Hunter Douglas Fellowship in Breast Cancer Research, with a donation of $250,000 from the company. “It’s rare in today’s world to find anyone who doesn’t know someone—a family member, friend, co-worker, or business acquaintance—whose life hasn’t been affected by breast cancer,” said Ron Kass, president... […]
SEATTLE CHILDREN’S signed a letter of intent with Juno Therapeutics Inc. to expand their collaboration to accelerate the availability of T-cell immunotherapy clinical trials for children and adults with brain tumors. The aim of the collaboration is to fast-track clinical implementation with the goal of opening phase I clinical trials within the next two years.... […]
THE CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY is partnering with Merck Canada Inc. to launch New Horizons in Cancer Research. Merck confirmed a $1 million contribution to the Canadian Cancer Society to support the creation and roll out of the New Horizons project, designed as an online source for answers about the latest scientific discoveries in cancer and... […]
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY'S Lurie Cancer Center is hosting its 23rd annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration Walk & 5K Run in Chicago's Grant Park June 5, which coincides with National Cancer Survivors Day and the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
