Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center, and City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a SPORE grant from NCI that aims to address lung cancer racial disparities through precision medicine, targeted smoking cessation programs, and community outreach.
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.
