NCI-designated Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers get research done—efficiently

On Capitol Hill, NIH gets congressional support and RFK Jr. gets slammed

As NIH and NCI funding is negotiated in Congress, Paul W. Thurman felt compelled to crunch some numbers. He compared the U.S.’s cumulative funding for NCI to the funding slated for ICE—the latter of which vastly outweighs the former—and asked whether the funding priorities of the federal government are properly representing the nation’s mortality.

September 10, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

Capitol Hill

House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

The House is on track to join the Senate in rejecting the Trump administration’s budget proposal that would cut NIH by $18 billion.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

Guest Editorial

Curing cancer or curbing immigration: A question of national morality and priority

In December 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and declared a “War on Cancer.” In the past 54 years, the U.S. has invested $180 billion nominally, or approximately $322 billion when adjusted for inflation, in cancer research. This investment has paid dividends with more than 100 anticancer drugs brought to market in half a century—virtually all traceable to National Cancer Institute funding.

Julie Bauman named deputy chair of NRG Oncology’s NCORP research program, Ryan Burri named vice chair of Veteran Affairs research

Julie BaumanRyan BurriNRG Oncology, an NCI National Clinical Trials Network group focused on multi-center clinical research, appointed Julie Bauman as deputy chair of the Community Oncology Research Program.

September 05, 2025

Vol.51 No.32

Podcast

In The Headlines: A good week for NIH, a bad week for Vinay Prasad

While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.

August 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.30

Podcast

In The Headlines: Is early detection always good? Inside NCI’s MCD feasibility trial.

Do multi-cancer detection tests provide a net benefit? NCI aims to answer this question, beginning with the Vanguard feasibility trial which recently started accruing patients.

July 30, 2025

Vol.51 No.29

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On Capitol Hill, NIH gets congressional support and RFK Jr. gets slammed

House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99MHouse joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts

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Julie Bauman named deputy chair of NRG Oncology’s NCORP research program, Ryan Burri named vice chair of Veteran Affairs research

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In The Headlines: Is early detection always good? Inside NCI’s MCD feasibility trial.

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House committee’s FY26 spending bill increases NCI funding by $48M, NIH by $99M
House joins Senate in rejecting Trump’s proposed 40% NIH cuts