Summer of 2020 was supposed to be a brief period of respite between Wave 1 and Wave 2 of COVID-19, but out of sheer stubbornness, for reasons political, or both, SARS-CoV-2 didn't get the message.
Last time Ruben Mesa spoke with The Cancer Letter, COVID-19 was under control in San Antonio and the environs—or so it seemed.
By making lung cancer screening available to a larger population, the new guideline from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force could save an additional 120 lives per 100,000 Americans, said Michael J. Barry, a member of the Task Force, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended expanding the eligible age range and broadening the risk threshold for annual low-dose CT screening for lung cancer.
A House subcommittee July 7 marked up a spending bill that proposes a $5.275 billion increase for NIH.
Approximately two-thirds of the NCI Community Oncology Research Programs, serve states in which the rural population exceeds 30%.
The NCI Board of Scientific Advisors has approved nine new and reissue concepts—Request for Applications, Cooperative Agreement, Request for Proposals, and Program Announcements with special receipt, referral and review.
Any way you look at it, Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, took a massive hit from COVID-19.
David A. Tuveson, was elected president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2021-22 by the members of the AACR.
James R. Downing, CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, received the inaugural award of the American Association for Cancer Research-St. Baldrick's Foundation for outstanding achievement in pediatric cancer research.
