In his upcoming budget proposal, President Joe Biden is expected to announce plans for a new, DARPA-like federal entity with a mission of accelerating cures for cancer and other diseases.
Lisa M. Coussens was elected president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2021-2022.She will officially become president-elect on April 12, 2021, during the AACR’s business meeting of members, and will assume the presidency in April 2022 at the next AACR annual meeting.
Lori J. Pierce, MD, FASTRO, FASCO began her term as the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 57th president on June 1, 2020, making her ASCO’s first African American woman to hold this prestigious title.
A retrospective study conducted by a team of NCI researchers is dispelling the widely held notion that small cell lung cancer is almost exclusively tied to a history of smoking.
José Baselga, an expert in the development of molecular targeted agents and an executive at AstraZeneca, died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, an extremely rare, rapidly progressing, degenerative brain disorder.
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors approved 12 new and reissue concepts.
In 1995, a group of doctors who advocated treating breast cancer with high dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation made an attempt to include that highly toxic procedure in the guidelines of the nascent National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
Mary Lasker: “If you can’t get it on a three-by-five-inch filing card, you’ve lost the message.”
As the world faced the threat of a novel respiratory pathogen, SARS-CoV-2, in the first months of 2020, there was a great deal of uncertainty about its effect on people, especially those living with a diagnosis of cancer.
An ad hoc group formed by NCI to provide advice on the slowly-accruing TMIST—Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial—recommended that the trial be streamlined, but should continue.
