ALAN ASHWORTH was appointed director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, effective January 2015.
EDITH PEREZ was named the 2014 recipient of the Claude Jacquillat Award. She received the award during the 25th International Congress on Anticancer Treatment. Winners of this award are recognized for outstanding contributions to cancer patient care.
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Ella KazerooniThe Cancer Letter asked Ella Kazerooni, a professor of radiology at the University of Michigan, chair of the American College of Radiology Committee on Lung Screening, and vice chair of the lung screening panel of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, to lay out the rationale for a proposal for broad coverage for lung screening.
Beyond NLST Findings and USPSTF GuidelineThe 40 groups petitioning CMS are seeking to broaden the eligible population further to “other high risk patient populations where evidence is promising.”
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is facing the formidable challenge of deciding what kinds of patients should be screened for lung cancer.
Does Myriad have rights to BRCA2?The race to find mutations associated with inherited risk of breast cancer started with Mary-Claire King's announcement of linkage to chromosome 17 in fall 1990. As Kevin Davies documented in his book Breakthrough, it is widely accepted that the team led by Mark Skolnick of the University of Utah and Myriad Genetics won that race to find BRCA1. They cloned and sequenced the gene and identified the first high-risk variants several months ahead of King and other rival groups in the UK, France and the United States. Utah/Myriad filed the first patent applications on BRCA1.
Patent litigation is a blood sport if you see corporations as people and count spilled ink or loss of money as hemorrhage.
JUDY GARBER [director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School]: I can hardly imagine the complexity of your task, and I should just endorse what Bill Sellers said first, but I wonder if it would be possible to have more simulations?
NCAB Discusses the ProposalSince changes in funding of the cancer centers will likely produce profound changes, NCAB discussion of the proposal warrants attention. A partial transcript of discussion appears below.
