Every cancer center seeking to obtain (or keep) an NCI designation will soon have to present a plan for increasing the diversity of their faculty and workforce.
DEI Network founders: Let’s work together to increase diversity across all cancer centers in America
Christopher Li and Wendy Law, both of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, have a message for leaders of DEI programs in oncology.
Here is an update on the FDA effort to cull the backlog of what the agency has colorfully dubbed the “dangling indications” of cancer drugs: two indications taken off the market by sponsors; one facing an uncertain future.
A 1990 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to E. Donnall Thomas for his discoveries in bone marrow transplantation has been put up for sale by his family.
Soon after starting work on a book about the role the NCI-designated cancer centers have played in the National Cancer Program, Skip Trump and Eric Rosenthal got in touch with John W. Yarbro.
David S. Fischer, clinical professor of medicine (oncology) at Yale School of Medicine and attending physician at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale, authored this history of the Clinical Cancer Program at Yale in 2012.
The University of Virginia has taken a long, circuitous path to NCI comprehensive cancer center designation, but it got there.
With growing evidence that molecular characterization of a tumor helps predict a patient’s prognosis and response to specific treatments, biomarker testing has been required or recommended for more than half of the 62 oncology drugs introduced over the past five years. However, health insurance policies don’t always cover tests, thus denying their clients access to precision medicine.
Emergent public-private partnerships (PPPs) have risen to the occasion to streamline and coordinate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines. With these monumental efforts have come important public discussions about equitable access and representation in clinical trials (CTs).
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship began in 1986 with 23 people at a hotel in Albuquerque and a $100 contribution from Patricia A. Ganz, who recalls thinking: “I don’t think I’ve ever invested in anything that was so good.”
