The American Society of Clinical Oncology released a position statement, “Block Grants in Medicaid & Their Impact on Cancer Care,” summarizing the society’s concerns about the potential negative impact that recent proposals to establish annual limits on federal funding for Medicaid–or block grants–could have on patients with cancer.
Last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter included an obituary that the entire staff at The Cancer Letter had been dreading for years: Abdallah Abou Zahr, an oncologist at Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND, died Jan. 23 of a liposarcoma after a five-year battle with the disease.
