Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

Kaklamani: The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium will focus on deescalating treatment while maintaining outcomes

The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium will focus on doing the same with less—less surgery, less radiation, while maintaining clinical outcomes. The symposium will take place Dec. 10-13 in San Antonio, TX.

A clinic at Fred Hutch addresses sexual health needs of patients with breast cancer
Data indicate low adherence to ASCO guideline

New data indicate that, professional guidelines notwithstanding, doctors rarely address concerns about sexual health when they treat women with cancer.

November 15, 2024

Vol.50 No.43

By Claire Marie Porter

In Brief

Fred Hutch, UW, and Seattle Children’s consortium researchers receive $1.7M from Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Six Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium scientists received $1.7M in grants from Breast Cancer Research Foundation to launch or continue studies aimed at improving outcomes in breast cancer.

November 15, 2024

Vol.50 No.43

Clinical Roundup

Preclinical data show anti-CD24 macrophage checkpoint inhibitor promotes phagocytosis and shrinks tumors

New preclinical data for PHST001, an anti-CD24 antibody drug candidate that is designed to block a key macrophage “don’t eat me” signal on cancer cells, were presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer. The meeting is taking place both virtually and at the George R. Brown Convention Center in...

November 08, 2024

Vol.50 No.42

Clinical Roundup

Scientists identify genes that help cancer cells survive in the bloodstream

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified 16 genes that breast cancer cells use to survive in the bloodstream after they’ve escaped the low-oxygen regions of a tumor. Each is a potential therapeutic target to stop cancer recurrence, and one—MUC1—is already in clinical trials. The research was published online Sept. 28 in...

November 08, 2024

Vol.50 No.42

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Iowa’s Mark Burkard sees a role for data science in bringing clinical trials to rural clinics
The state has the second highest (and rising) cancer rates in the U.S.

A curious piece of paper hangs in a frame outside the director’s office at University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center on the second floor of the General Hospital.

November 01, 2024

Vol.50 No.41

By Paul Goldberg

Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Mark Burkard named director of UI Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Kaklamani: The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium will focus on deescalating treatment while maintaining outcomes

A clinic at Fred Hutch addresses sexual health needs of patients with breast cancerData indicate low adherence to ASCO guideline

Fred Hutch, UW, and Seattle Children’s consortium researchers receive $1.7M from Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Preclinical data show anti-CD24 macrophage checkpoint inhibitor promotes phagocytosis and shrinks tumors

Scientists identify genes that help cancer cells survive in the bloodstream

Iowa’s Mark Burkard sees a role for data science in bringing clinical trials to rural clinicsThe state has the second highest (and rising) cancer rates in the U.S.

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A clinic at Fred Hutch addresses sexual health needs of patients with breast cancer
Data indicate low adherence to ASCO guideline

Iowa’s Mark Burkard sees a role for data science in bringing clinical trials to rural clinics
The state has the second highest (and rising) cancer rates in the U.S.