Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump has chosen to run HHS, would have the capacity to roll back core public health protections, including protections for people with cancer, and dismantle research related to infectious diseases, public health experts warn.
Young adults with cancer are starting to break the silence about grief. Most people think of grief following the death of a loved one, but grief can accompany any event that disrupts or challenges our sense of normalcy or ourselves.1 During this first week of December, National Grief Awareness Week, we can raise awareness about grief in young adults with cancer to help ensure that no one grieves alone.
On Dec. 23, 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law.
The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.
One year after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made the decision to pay for patient navigation services, data from early adopters show that navigation services are leading to better outcomes, significant cost savings for healthcare systems, and mitigation of health inequities.
The NCI Cancer Center Support Grant requires community outreach and engagement, but the design and implementation of COE programs, as well as staff training, are largely left to individual institutions.
The world of cancer treatments continues to evolve, and for those diagnosed with blood cancers, a new option can be found in menin inhibitors—the latest form of targeted therapy in advanced acute leukemia.
When Larry Einhorn was a young physician in the early 1970s, actinomycin-D was the standard drug used to treat testicular cancer. It was—and still is—the most common carcinoma in young men ages 15-35.
Urologic oncologist Wayne Brisbane thought his patient might be a good candidate for focal therapy.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, placing the vaccine skeptic in charge of a vast empire of research, engineering, regulatory, and health care agencies.
