ST. BALDRICK’S FOUNDATION is providing infrastructure grants to nearly 40 childhood cancer institutions across the U.S., allowing them to conduct research and increase the number of children participating in clinical trials. A joint program was created from three Chicago institutions, with the support of St. Baldrick’s infrastructure grants, to enroll patients on Children’s Oncology Group...
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
