SUSAN PITT received a Young Investigator Award from UW Carbone Cancer Center. Pitt is an assistant professor of surgery who specializes in endocrine surgery and thyroid cancer. She joined the cancer center in August 2015. Pitt will use the award to study why providers often overtreat thyroid microcancers, those that measure one centimeter or less...
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
