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Cover Story

The Hutch, University of Washington, and Seattle Children’s forming a more streamlined union

Two decades ago, when Fred Hutch, the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s formed a consortium, they created the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to serve as a hub of clinical operations.

Cancer History Project Conversation with The Cancer Letter

How Fred Hutch, UW and Seattle Children’s helped revive NCI-designated consortium cancer centers

By Paul Goldberg

Conversation with The Cancer Letter Free Health Equity

Peter Pisters: I want MD Anderson to be seen as an exemplar in our work on diversity, equity, and inclusion

By Matthew Bin Han Ong

Capitol Hill

House subcommittee slates $6.5B increase for NIH: $3B for ARPA-H and $3.5B for research, adding $432M to FY22 NCI budget

Free In the Archives

Edward Kennedy: The 20th anniversary of the National Cancer Act of 1971

Clinical Trials & Tribulations

Rogue drug maker first inflates the price of lomustine, then says No to Medicare coverage

By Henry S. Friedman and John D. Lee

In Brief

UM Greenebaum receives Comprehensive Cancer Center renewal from NCI

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade receives 2021 William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award from SABCS

NCI names recipients of Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Awards

PanCAN awards $3 million in grants

Marco Argenti, Karyn Temple named to PanCAN board; Margaret Tempero named chair of Scientific and Medical Advisory Board

University of Minnesota establishes Institute for Global Cancer Prevention Research

ASCO-COA Oncology Medical Home standards provide roadmap for comprehensive high-quality, cancer care delivery

AACR Foundation partners with The Battle Cancer CrossFit Challenge

California State Assembly Health Committee advances California Cancer Patients’ Bill of Rights

MD Anderson, Hummingbird Bioscience collaborate to advance innovative immunotherapies

COTA, MedStar Health partner to expedite delivery of innovative cancer treatments

Clinical Roundup

Latest global data on cancer burden and alcohol consumption: More than 740, 000 new cases of cancer in 2020 attributed to alcohol

Tool helps predict response to targeted prostate cancer therapy

New cancer survivorship study focuses on Kentucky

Drugs & Targets

Darzalex Faspro + pomalidomide and dexamethasone receives FDA approval for multiple myeloma

Padcev receives regular approval from FDA for locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer

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