Jefferson’s Andrew Chapman tells us what it’s like to be the first geriatric oncology expert to run a cancer center

Mammograms may benefit women well into their 80s, UCLA study finds

For many older women, the question of whether to continue breast cancer screening has been uncertain. While most guidelines recommend mammograms up to age 74, advice for women 75 and older has been less clear.

September 26, 2025

Vol.51 No.35

Clinical Roundup

Korean researchers find CRC patients over 70 years don’t stand to benefit from chemo

Oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy significantly improves survival only in stage 3 colorectal cancer patients aged 70 or younger, according to a study conducted by researchers at Korea University Guro Hospital and Korea University College of Medicine. For patients over 70, the drug offered no survival advantage and led to higher rates of treatment discontinuation due to toxicity.

September 26, 2025

Vol.51 No.35

Clinical Roundup

Older adults with aggressive blood cancer are responsive to treatment and show prolonged survival

Standard of care treatment for acute myeloid leukemia is safe and effective for adults over 80, according to a study published in Blood Neoplasia. For roughly a quarter of patients, this treatment can durably prolong survival.

May 17, 2024

Vol.50 No.20

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

“This is our time, and the time is now”—Chapman tells us about Jefferson’s final push for Comprehensive designation

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health can add the word “Comprehensive” to its name, becoming the 57 institution to earn this top-level designation from NCI. xxx:more

Association of Cancer Center Administrators holds inaugural meeting in Philadelphia

Sporting a leprechaun’s hat and a giant green bowtie, Matthew Huesser, DBA, conference chairperson and vice president for cancer research administration at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, welcomed over 400 attendees to Philadelphia for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Cancer Center Administrators.

Edith Mitchell, medical oncologist, champion of health equity, and brigadier general, dies at 76

Edith P. Mitchell, a medical oncologist, champion of health equity, and the first woman physician to attain the rank of U.S. Air Force brigadier general, died unexpectedly Jan. 21. She was 76.

January 26, 2024

Vol.50 No.04

By Alexandria Carolan

Jefferson’s Andrew Chapman tells us what it’s like to be the first geriatric oncology expert to run a cancer center

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