The National Cancer Registries Program, or NPCR, is a relatively small but highly impactful 33-year-old CDC program that gauges disparities in cancer and tracks progress against the disease. So, why was it left out of the Trump administration’s preliminary budget?
Over the past week, as cancer control experts scoured through a confidential budget document called the “passback” budget, they haven’t been able to find any trace of a relatively small but highly impactful program that funds state cancer registries.
When Helene Brown, a cancer control pioneer who jokingly described herself as “the first in a long line of political oncologists,” delivered the keynote address at the Oncology Nursing Society annual meeting in 1990, she set forth bold predictions for the ensuing 20 years of the field: appointments conducted over “computerphone,” major genetic breakthroughs, and universal healthcare.
Matthew J. Carpenter was named associate director of the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Program at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
Cancer prevention and control and efforts to ensure health equity are essential in meeting the Cancer Moonshot goal of halving cancer mortality in the next 25 years, but some complex scientific and societal problems must be resolved for this to happen, a group of four directors of NCI-designated cancer centers said.
Terry Hyslop was named co-leader of the Cancer Risk and Control Program at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center named.
William A. Calo was named co-leader of the Cancer Control Program of the Penn State Cancer Institute.
In the trenches on the medicine wards and smoking cessation clinics at Parkland Hospital and UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center, I see firsthand the increased prevalence of smoking in the Black population, their frequent use of menthol, and the ravaging toll it takes on their health.
A care hotline and resource hub for Ukrainian cancer patients established by the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health has recruited several hundred volunteers as the organizations work to develop a lasting infrastructure to support those displaced by the crisis.
Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons with cancer are fighting a double war for survival—which is why aid networks and providers must prioritize psychosocial oncology, said Csaba Dégi, executive secretary of the International Psycho-Oncology Society.
