The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $9 million gift from the F. W. Bert and Mae Dean Wheeler Foundation to establish the F. W. Bert and Mae Dean Wheeler Nurse Leadership Academy.
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute opened a new Breast Health Center in East Brunswick, NJ.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and IU Health began a mobile lung cancer screening program, which includes a 40-foot truck with a CT scanner.
Fred Hutch Cancer Center announced 10 recipients of the annual Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes the exceptional achievements of graduate studies in the biological sciences.
Global research initiative Cancer Grand Challenges announced on March 5 seven new challenges which it deems to be among the biggest questions in cancer, offering international researchers the chance to form teams to apply for up to $25 million (or £20 million) in funding to take them on.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology issued a clinical guideline on the use of radiation therapy to treat adult patients with primary squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal and anal margin.
B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a common type of ALL in adults.
A five-year study on subjects who had only the cancerous portion of their prostate glands destroyed shows that the procedure averted cancer recurrence in most patients while preserving urinary and sexual function.
A study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that an immunotherapy previously shown to be ineffective against prostate cancer may have therapeutic potential when combined with a synergistic treatment approach.
The phase III VERIFY trial, in which phlebotomy-dependent patients with polycythemia vera were randomized to treatment with either rusfertide (PTG-300) or placebo, as an add-on to standard of care treatment, met its primary endpoint of proportion of patients achieving response.
