A recent article in JAMA Network Open published by myself and my research collaborators—Jill Harrison at Brown University, Sarah Yarborough at Fred Hutch, and Tammy Stokes at Maury Regional Medical Center—examined the potential for a brief communication-based intervention to help older adults with cancer who live in rural settings better manage their pain.
In a new online exhibition, The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society examines the complicated relationship between life insurance and smoking.
In 1996, Lei Zheng, a graduate of Peking Union Medical College, enrolled in the doctorate program at what was then known as the Cancer Therapy & Research Center in San Antonio.
NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell has released her professional judgment budget proposal, requesting nearly $11.5 billion—the same amount as last year’s proposal prepared by her predecessor, Monica Bertagnolli.
A study recently published in JAMA sheds light on cancer risks associated with carrying germline CDH1 mutations, challenging previous, potentially inflated, lifetime cancer risk estimates.
Something odd turned up in one of Lawrence Phillips’s routine health screenings in 2008.
We lost Jeff Weber, an amazing medical oncologist, an impactful clinical scientist, a leading immunotherapist, and one of the prominent global experts in melanoma.
Huiping Liu, associate professor of pharmacology and medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, appeared on the Cancer Luminaries podcast. This series was launched by the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center to mark its 50th year as an NCI-designated center.
Elizabeth Comen originally set out to write a book about the wellness industry, but ended up writing a different book altogether.
The Cancer Letter’s summer reading list is here and it’s full of titles to help you drive professional growth, reflect on a divided nation—and even explore a little “neural nostalgia” with Beyoncé.
