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February 20, 2026Feb 20, 2026

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Cover Story

A year after LA wildfires, early data reinforce anxieties over firefighters’ cancer risks

Respirators (restricted by federal regulation) may or may not be the answer

The call to Fire Captain Brian Buchanan and his crew came at midnight. Northern California firefighters were urgently needed to help fight the wildfires that were devouring big swaths of Los Angeles.

News Analysis

NIH Director Bhattacharya named acting CDC director in latest public health shakeup
The temporary appointment concentrates vast authority in the hands of one person

By Claire Marie Porter

Black History Month Podcast

Malcolm V. Brock on his journey from Bermuda to Japan to the U.S. to England–and from Japanese studies to thoracic oncology
“When it gets down to brass tacks, relationships between each other, we’re all one.”

By Malcolm V. Brock, Robert A. Winn and Preston Willett

Guest Editorial

Sustaining community oncology through nonprofit structures and shared technology infrastructure

By Jacob Welkley

Guest Editorial

California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Research: A promise broken?

By Stephen J. Forman

Rewriting immune regulation with the CD6/CTLA‑4 CAR‑Treg platform

By Christine Brown and Enrique Montero

Podcast

Fires, F-bombs, and facemasks—Study results show impact of LA fires on firefighter cancer risk

Cancer Policy

At Friends meeting, Pazdur, Woodcock lament FDA’s failure to protect the agency staff from political interference, warn of “lasting implications”

Bayer agrees to $7.25B settlement over lawsuits alleging Roundup weedkiller caused cancer

In Brief

James Downing to step down as president and CEO of St. Jude to focus on global pediatric medicine

Alice Soragni joins CU Anschutz to launch functional personalized medicine initiative

WVU Cancer Institute first in the world to treat ultra-rare leukemia using novel subcutaneous immunotherapy

UNC Health to offer advanced proton therapy

University of Illinois Cancer Center creates collaborative Oncogeneralist Training Program

CPRIT approves more than $15M in new funding for cancer research and recruitment

KU Medical Center, KU Health System, Children’s Mercy, and BAMF Health to team up to develop theranostics platform

Indiana University receives $5M grant to expand breast cancer diagnosis, care in Kenya

Clinical Roundup

ARPA-H opens first interventional clinical trials to outpace cancer in real time

Cancer cells’ ability to adapt could yield new treatment approaches, NYU-led study finds

NCCN guidelines detail fundamental differences between pediatric and adult cancers

Findings from Cincinnati Children’s study could make immune checkpoint inhibitors safer

Antibody-drug conjugate achieves high response rates as frontline treatment in aggressive, rare blood cancer

Mount Sinai study strengthens evidence supporting lung-sparing surgery in mesothelioma

Lung cancer drug offers a surprising new treatment against ovarian cancer, Mayo study finds

Different KRAS mutations affect how tumors interact with the immune system, UTSW-led study finds

Exposure to pathogenic bacteria significantly increased SMOX activity, leading growth and metastasis of breast cancer, JHU-led study finds

Drugs & Targets

FDA approves pancreatic cancer device

FDA grants Breakthrough Therapy designation to Rybrevant Faspro in advanced head-and-neck cancer

FDA accepts NDA for iberdomide in patients with r/r MM

Siemens Healthineers and Mayo Clinic collaborate to improve care for neurodegenerative disease, cancer

PharmaMar, Globant collaborate to accelerate oncology research with AI

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