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Cover Story

NCI approves Georgetown-Hackensack consortium

Are More Long-Distance Relationship In The Works?

NCI has funded a consortium uniting Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center and John Theurer Cancer Center of Hackensack University Medical Center.

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Georgetown's Weiner and Hackensack's Pecora tell us how they created a consortium spanning 233 miles

By Paul Goldberg

FDA issues draft guidance on using real world data in drugs, biologics

By Matthew Bin Han Ong

House committee advances FY2020 funding bill giving NIH a $2 billion raise

By Claire Dietz

Clinical Free Trials & Tribulations

Estimating overdiagnosis is hard—we need all the help we can get

By Ruth Etzioni and Roman Gulati

In Brief

Primo “Lucky” Lara now serves as SWOG deputy chair, Kathy Albain is vice president

Tisch Cancer Institute and Precision Immunology Institute form Mt. Sinai Center for Computational Immunology

Memorial Sloan Kettering introduces MSK Kids

Ananth, Choi, Kirtane, Li receive NCCN Young Investigator Award

UAMS's Johann receives $1.4 million for lung cancer clinical trials

Prostate Cancer Foundation publishes revised guidelines, new patient resources

Funding Opportunities

DoD Prostate Cancer Research Program– opportunities for FY19

DoD Breast Cancer Research Program– funding opportunities for FY19

Clinical Roundup

BMS phase III study didn't meet primary endpoint of OS with Opdivo + radiation in glioblastoma multiforme

City of Hope opens multiple myeloma autologous CAR T-cell therapy trial targeting CS1 protein

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves Kadcyla for breast cancer

FDA grants Breakthrough Device designation to Natera's Signatera test

Caris Life Sciences receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation for MI Transcriptome companion diagnostic test

European Commission approves Lorviqua in previously-treated ALK-positive advanced NSCLC

Arcus Biosciences and Strata Oncology announce clinical development collaboration for anti-PD-1 antibody

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