Even with access to a clinical trial, cancer patients living in the poorest neighborhoods in America have a nearly 30% greater chance of dying from their disease compared to the wealthiest patients, SWOG Cancer Research Network study results show.
President Joe Biden’s proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health would be a welcome partner to NCI—particularly in conducting large, collaborative clinical investigations, NCI Director Ned Sharpless said.“I think having ARPA-H as part of the NIH is good for the NCI,” Sharpless said April 11 in his remarks at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. “How this would fit with the ongoing efforts in cancer at the NCI is still something to work out.”
