The Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity (ACCURE) clinical trial—a prospective study designed to reduce gaps in cancer treatment completion and survival among Black and white patient populations— found that identifying and addressing obstacles that kept patients from finishing radiation treatments improved five-year survival rates for all patients and erased the survival gap between Black and white patients.
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.
