NCI has released the language of the much-discussed National Cancer Plan, an eight-goal blueprint that spans the spectrum of cancer care—prevention, treatment, and survivorship—to correspond with President Joe Biden’s vision of cutting cancer mortality by half in 25 years.
Readers of The Cancer Letter and listeners of The Cancer Letter Podcast are familiar with the impact of President Donald Trump’s first nine months in office on the field of oncology. Now, the threats posed to oncology are being brought to the attention of a general audience—Jonathan Mahler, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote an in-depth article about how the Trump administration’s actions have brought chaos, uncertainty, and damage to the oncology research community.
