ALA report: lung cancer survival has improved, but remains significantly lower for people of color

Scarlett Lin Gomez awarded AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities

The American Association for Cancer Research will award Scarlett Lin Gomez with the 2024 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities during the 17th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved to be held in Los Angeles Sept. 21-24.

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Vol.50 No.35

Clinical Roundup

Immunotherapy before and after lung cancer surgery reduces death risk, disease recurrence

People with operable non-small cell lung cancers may fare better over the next few years by receiving immunotherapy treatments before and after surgery instead of only before surgery, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators.

September 13, 2024

Vol.50 No.34

Cancer History Project Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Lung cancer couldn’t slow down physician and athlete Lawrence Phillips

Something odd turned up in one of Lawrence Phillips’s routine health screenings in 2008.

September 06, 2024

Vol.50 No.33

By Deborah Doroshow and McKenzie Prillaman

Drugs & Targets

FDA grants Imfinzi priority review and Breakthrough Therapy designation for limited-stage SCLC

FDA granted priority review for Imfinzi (durvalumab), AstraZeneca’s supplemental Biologics License Application, based on the results from the positive ADRIATIC phase III trial in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer whose disease has not progressed following platinum-based concurrent chemoradiotherapy.

September 06, 2024

Vol.50 No.33

Drugs & Targets

Daiichi Sankyo, Merck collaborate to develop and commercialize MK-6070, an investigational delta-like ligand 3 targeting T-cell engager

Daiichi Sankyo and Merck have expanded their existing global co-development and co-commercialization agreement for three investigational DXd antibody-drug conjugates to include Merck’s MK-6070, an investigational delta-like ligand 3 targeting T-cell engager.

August 09, 2024

Vol.50 No.32

Health Equity

Solving problems doctors can’t fix: How Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership saves lives by including lawyers on cancer care teams
Why every cancer center needs a Cancer LAW Project

By the end of 2022, Toni Monteiro had no fight left in her. She had been battling a rare blood cancer for three years. Her husband had just died. She was at risk of being evicted from her Washington, DC, apartment. Also, her heart was failing. “You’re really under stress,” Monteiro recalls her physician saying. ...

August 02, 2024

Vol.50 No.31

By Matthew Bin Han Ong

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