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Suresh Ramalingam tells us what it’s like to become director of Emory Cancer Center and editor of Cancer—on the same day

Cover Story

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Suresh Ramalingam tells us what it’s like to become director of Emory Cancer Center and editor of Cancer—on the same day

By Paul Goldberg

It’s safe to say that July 1 was a better than average day for Suresh S. Ramalingam.

Capitol Hill

AACR requests $7.6 billion for NCI

By Alexandria Carolan

Annual Report to the Nation: Declines in lung cancer, melanoma death rates drive overall cancer mortality drop

By Alexandria Carolan

Free Health Equity

To address disparities, Cleveland health systems re-imagine diversity, inclusion, equity efforts at the executive level

By Matthew Bin Han Ong

Cancer History Project Free

To NCI designation through difficulty: How KU’s Roy Jensen made it happen

By Paul Goldberg

Free In the Archives

Which cancer center was first? The answer depends on what you mean by “cancer center”

By Katie Goldberg

In Brief

Theresa Gillespie named associate director for community outreach and engagement at Winship Cancer Institute

Ajay Maker named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at UCSF

Peter Abdelmessieh joins Fox Chase Cancer Center

ASTRO to host in-person annual meeting in Chicago Oct. 24-27

GE Healthcare, Sophia Genetics to collaborate on matching treatments to multimodal patient data and cancer type

Clinical Roundup

Melanoma registry fosters understanding of pediatric cancer

Fred Hutch study highlights cancer inequities in hospice care, financial impact

Drugs & Targets

Merck will withdraw Keytruda’s “dangling” indication for gastric cancer

Keytruda receives FDA approval for cSCC indication

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