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How MD Anderson and Texas Children’s made plans to build a $1 billion pediatric cancer hospital—one of the world’s largest

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Clinical

How MD Anderson and Texas Children’s made plans to build a $1 billion pediatric cancer hospital—one of the world’s largest

The windows down the hall from the operating room scrub sinks at MD Anderson Cancer Center look out at the tower of Texas Children’s Hospital.

Capitol Hill

At House hearing, Democrats clash with RFK Jr. over “radical obstruction of congressional oversight,” vaccine policies
Rep. Lori Trahan: “People are going to die”

By Claire Marie Porter

Free Guest Editorial

Building cancer care resilience through international observerships: Lessons from Ukraine

By Nataliya Kovalchuk, Andriy Beznosenko, Vitaliy Y. Poylin, Rostyslav Semikov, Arman Kacharian, Douglas Davis, Nataliya Uboha, Natalka Suchowerska, Viktor Iakovenko, Jacqueline Hart, Mark Poznansky, Darya Kizub and Nelya Melnitchouk

Clinical Trials & Tribulations

As cancer patients use AI chatbots, dangers lurk—but new safeguards can help

By Ghulam Rasool, Brian D. Gonzalez and Katherine Chung-Bridges

Podcast

In the Headlines: MD Anderson’s Pisters on doing “something gigantic for pediatric cancer”

Cancer Policy

Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay to retire as acting head of CDER at FDA

RFK Jr.’s new committee votes on vaccine recommendations, despite Sen. Cassidy’s call for meeting delay

In Brief

Nicholas Jaidar named senior administrator for oncology at Johns Hopkins

Phyllis Harris appointed chief legal and risk officer at ACS

Multi-institutional team awarded $3.4M NCI grant to open AML trial

RWJBarnabas Health, Rutgers Cancer Institute welcomes first patients

Yuman Fong delivers the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Lister Legacy Lecture

Ric Anderson, Eduardo Peñalver named to Fred Hutch board of directors, Jim Lico becomes member

Matt Kozlovac named inaugural executive director of Man Up to Cancer

Funding Opportunities

NIHCM calls for research grants applications

Clinical Roundup

NCCN announces virtual tool for navigating guidelines

City of Hope launches AI tool to reduce burden of cancer care

Rucaparib maintenance therapy demonstrates PFS benefit for HRD-negative and HRD-positive ovarian cancer

Duvelisib + romidepsin combination effective for T-cell lymphoma patients, Mass General Brigham study shows

VCU Massey researchers discover TAF2 gene plays a pivotal role in HCC

Mayo Clinic researchers use biobanking tissue to better characterize ovarian cancer origins

Drugs & Targets

FDA grants accelerated approval to datopotamab deruxtecan-dlnk for EGFR-mutated NSCLC

FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation for daraxonrasib in pancreatic cancer

CHMP adopts positive opinion of Sarclisa + SOC for transplant-eligible newly diagnosed MM

CHMP adopts positive opinion of cabozantinib for previously treated advanced neuroendocrine tumors

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