Phil and Penny Knight made a record-setting $2 billion gift to OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.
Mary Beckerle, a whitewater kayaker, has advice for all the folks in the cancer field: never catastrophize, never panic.
I always liked poetry, but I was never a poet. I had to marry into that.
I write a weekly blog for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community. Here I share an updated version of a blog post I wrote in September 2024, now supplemented by some poems I have written over the years that inspired paintings by my wife Harriet Weiner, who is a much better artist than I am a poet or writer.
Earlier this year, amid efforts by the Trump administration to reduce the federal workforce, Lakshmi Grama decided to take early retirement from NCI.
Bits of good news for NIH flickered consistently over the past week.
Those anxiously anticipating the release of the U.S. News & World Report‘s evaluation of cancer hospitals will find one intriguing change.
Multiple components of the healthcare and public health systems are currently under scrutiny. One of them is reportedly the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF: “Task Force”), established in 1984 and managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was created to maintain an ongoing evaluation of disease prevention and screening interventions that... […]
The first large cancer screening/early detection initiative to be launched in 2025—the NCI-funded Vanguard study of multi-cancer detection tests—has started accruing patients through nine sites across the U.S.
