The Community Oncology Alliance and CancerCare are partnering on the “Time to Screen” campaign, which aims to increase cancer screenings in the U.S.
The Association for Clinical Oncology presented Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) with the annual Congressional Champion for Cancer Care Award.
The development of more effective cancer treatment has yielded higher cure rates, longer survival, and a decrease in cancer recurrence. As of January 2019, the National Cancer Institute estimated that there were 16.9 million cancer survivors in the United States.
Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer, age 50 and younger, have a better survival rate than patients diagnosed with the disease later in life, a study by Yale Cancer Center researchers shows.
Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (whose cancer cells have low levels of—an abnormal number of chromosomes—tend to respond better to immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs than patients with higher levels, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers found.
Early results from a chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy trial led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found using a bilateral attack instead of the conventional single-target approach helps minimizes treatment resistance, resulting in long-lasting remission for people with non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma that has come back or has not responded to treatment.
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network has launched the Early Detection Initiative, the largest interventional study of its kind that will look at new onset diabetes and its correlation to pancreatic cancer.
FDA has granted accelerated approval to Trodelvy (sacituzumab govitecan) for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer who previously received a platinum-containing chemotherapy and either a programmed death receptor-1 or a programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitor.
FDA has authorized marketing of the GI Genius, the first device that uses artificial intelligence based on machine learning to assist clinicians in detecting lesions (such as polyps or suspected tumors) in the colon in real time during a colonoscopy.
The American Association for Cancer Research will honor the following cancer researchers, physician-scientists, advocates, and policymakers for their achievements during the virtual AACR annual meeting held April 10-15 and May 17-21.
