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UCLA researchers awarded $2.5M grant from BMS Foundation to increase lung cancer screening in underserved communities

A multidisciplinary team of experts in lung cancer screening and implementation science from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, to spearhead a new initiative aimed at reducing disparities in lung cancer screening across Los Angeles County. 
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MD Anderson’s Boot Walk to End Cancer raises $1.4M

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center hosted its ninth annual Boot Walk to End Cancer fundraising event on Nov. 2, in the Texas Medical Center. This year, the Boot Walk’s 7,000+ in-person participants and 1,200+ virtual participants from Houston and around the world joined together to raise $1.4 million to support the institution’s mission to end cancer. 
Clinical Roundup

Ruxolitinib improves CML’s response to standard TKI treatment

Researchers leading the SWOG S1712 clinical trial have found that adding ruxolitinib (Jakafi) to standard tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment for patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia significantly increased the percentage of patients who had a molecular response deep enough to warrant discontinuing treatment. Results were presented at the European School of Haematology’s 26th Annual John... […]
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AI may be more accurate vs. traditional methods at classifying patients into prostate cancer risk groups

For localized prostate cancer, multimodal artificial intelligence models have revealed a more accurate way to assess prostate cancer risk.  By combining advanced artificial intelligence with digital pathology images and clinical data, researchers developed a way to approach risk classification that outperforms traditional methods. These findings were published in JCO Precision Oncology. The research found that... […]
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Neuro-oncology experts release clinical practice guidelines for using AI in brain cancer diagnosis, monitoring, treatment

An international, multidisciplinary team of leading neuro-oncology researchers and clinicians has released new recommendations for good clinical practice—a set of guidelines that helps ensure clinical trial results are reliable, and patients are protected—regarding the use of artificial intelligence methods to more accurately diagnose, monitor, and treat brain cancer patients. The team recently published two companion... […]