AI-aided colonoscopy improves ADR

Health innovation and health equity: Ensuring technologies advance resilience, justice, and compassionate care

Technological innovations are often hailed as transformative tools capable of revolutionizing healthcare. From gene editing for conditions like sickle cell disease to AI predicting hospital readmissions, to telemedicine expanding healthcare access, these advancements have the potential to change the way we treat diseases.

March 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.11

By Jamillah Hoy-Rosas

Clinical Roundup

AI tool helps predict who will benefit from focal therapy for prostate cancer, study shows

A study led by UCLA investigators shows that AI could play a key role in improving treatment outcomes for patients with prostate cancer by helping physicians determine who is most likely to benefit from partial gland cryoablation, a minimally invasive procedure that treats localized prostate tumors.

March 21, 2025

Vol.51 No.11

Guest Editorial

Raising awareness—for everyone

As cancer specialists, we have to constantly be on the lookout, alert for trends as they emerge—because they might impact the way we best deliver advice or care, or because trends may inform us about specific influences that drive cancers.

March 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.09

By W. Kimryn Rathmell

Harnessing innovation: The next frontier in surgical oncology

The field of surgical oncology has undergone transformative advancements over the last decade. From refining minimally invasive techniques to leveraging immunotherapy and viral oncolytics, our collective goal remains the same: improving patient outcomes while reducing treatment burden. At City of Hope, we have prioritized accelerating the translation of laboratory discoveries into clinical applications, and nowhere is this more evident than in our work with oncolytic viruses, remote surgery, and the integration of AI in surgical decision-making.

March 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.09

By Yuman Fong

Funding Opportunities

Cancer Grand Challenges announces new focus areas for research funding

Global research initiative Cancer Grand Challenges announced on March 5 seven new challenges which it deems to be among the biggest questions in cancer, offering international researchers the chance to form teams to apply for up to $25 million (or £20 million) in funding to take them on.

March 07, 2025

Vol.51 No.09

Guest Editorial

Telling our stories: Bidirectional benefits of sharing our history

Knowledge is power, and this information, true for many cancers, is valuable for everyone to know—either to have an awareness of their own bodies and the factors that they can control, or to create spaces for empathy with persons they might encounter with cancer.

February 28, 2025

Vol.51 No.08

By W. Kimryn Rathmell