The American Association for Cancer Research released the AACR Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Research and Patient Care, providing a comprehensive view of the burden of COVID-19 among patients with cancer; the challenges presented by the pandemic in cancer research and patient care; and the changes implemented during the pandemic that have unexpectedly improved research practices and access to care.
Research from Sanford Burnham Prebys has revealed significant molecular differences between the breast cells of white and Black women that help explain why Black women experience higher breast cancer mortality.
Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers confirmed that the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 are just as safe for people with cancer as they are for cancer-free individuals.
UC Davis Health has successfully treated its first patient with chimeric antigen receptor T cells created in its cellular therapy lab. UC Davis is now one of only a few medical centers in California manufacturing CAR T cells on-site.
An online symptom management tool using expressive writing could help women with ovarian cancer better manage complex symptoms, according to a new study led by a University of Pittsburgh and UPMC nurse-scientist.
Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dartmouth’s and Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Brown University School of Public Health, and the University of California San Francisco have introduced a novel immune-profiling method capable of reporting specific immune cell types using only DNA from blood, rather than from fresh cell samples.
Foundation Medicine Inc. and Eli Lilly and Company entered a collaboration for the development of Foundation Medicine’s tissue- and blood-based assays as companion diagnostics for Retevmo (selpercatinib) and other therapies in Loxo Oncology at Lilly’s pipeline.
On behalf of the millions of Americans with cancer, whose very lives depend on our nation’s investment in oncology research, we ask that you join us now in urging congressional lawmakers to do the right thing: pass robust funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.
Mignon Loh and Elizabeth Swisher were named deputy directors of the Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium.
The University of Chicago Medicine plans to build a $633 million, 500,000-square-foot facility dedicated to cancer care on its medical campus on the city’s South Side.
