John A. Ellerton, the principal investigator of the Nevada Cancer Research Foundation NCI Community Oncology Research Program, has won the 2021 Harry Hynes Award. The award is given annually to NCORP PIs for outstanding contribution to clinical trials and community research. In 1983, Ellerton’s group, then called the Southern Nevada Research Foundation, was among the... […]
The prevalence of workplace harassment, discrimination, and retaliation experienced by women physicians, especially women of color, is alarmingly high.
Routine screening procedures for breast, colon, and cervical cancers in the first half of 2021 have failed to recover, falling by about a third below historical baselines, even as Americans are resuming normal activities.
Franco Muggia, a drug developer and former director of NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, died unexpectedly on Sept. 8.
From 1992 to 2008, Ellen Stovall was the president and CEO of NCCS, the oldest survivor-led organization advocating for quality cancer care for all Americans. This video, filmed and produced in 2008, features interviews from NCCS co-founders Dr. Patti Ganz and Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, Dr. Julia Rowland, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, the late General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and others.
NCI is asking for an appropriation of $7.8 billion for fiscal year 2023—about $800 million above the House’s FY22 proposed budget for NCI.
NCI has renewed the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation.
Fran Visco never asked for $300 million in breast cancer research funding—she demanded it.
This September, the Cancer History Project is focusing on the evolution of cancer advocacy over the past 50 years. Here are selected archives recognizing and celebrating advocates—and remembering their legacy.
In health, the immune system plays a key role in protecting us not only from infectious disease, but also from the development of cancer; immune cells recognize and destroy harmful agents, whether pathogens or malignant cells.
