When the Cancer History Project launched in January, co-editors Otis Brawley and Paul Goldberg laid out a plan to build a lasting resource for the history of oncology (The Cancer Letter, Jan. 8, 2021). It was “the beginning of a process of storytelling.”
The vast majority of hospitals in the United States—up to 80%—treat patient populations that are disproportionately white, U.S. News & World Report said, unveiling a new suite of health equity measures earlier this week.
When Ben Harder and his team of health analysts at U.S. News & World Report developed a suite of health equity measures for America’s hospitals, they expected to find some level of disparity, but nothing prepared them for the shocking magnitude of inequity they uncovered.
To comprehend the significance of disparities articulated in the U.S. News study and define the scorecards’ impact on bragging rights at cancer centers, The Cancer Letter asked four leaders in oncology to evaluate the health equity measures.
In 1993, when William Hait came to New Jersey to start work toward the NCI designation for Rutgers, the place had one office and three cubicles.
On the heels of the National Cancer Act of 1974, then-NCI director Frank Rauscher identifies four more Comprehensive Cancer Centers, bringing the number to 16. Today, there are 51 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.
Institutions will be required to report sexual misconduct to NIH if House committee bill becomes law
Institutions receiving NIH funds through grants or cooperative agreements would be required—by federal law—to notify the NIH director when a principal investigator or other key personnel are removed or disciplined for “harassment, bullying, retaliation, or hostile working conditions.”
As a comprehensive cancer center in Los Angeles, City of Hope serves one of the most diverse—and vulnerable—patient populations in the U.S.
Consortium cancer centers have been around for 50 years—since the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971.
Letter to the editor by Donald L. “Skip” Trump, MD, and Eric T. Rosenthal, coauthors of Centers of the Cancer Universe: A Half-Century of Progress Against Cancer
