The National Comprehensive Cancer Network, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, and the National Minority Quality Forum established three key areas of policy focus as part of the Alliance for Cancer Care Equity joint collaboration, including advancing diversity in clinical trials, improving cancer screening and early detection, and increasing access to patient navigation.
Sheldon L. Holder knew he wanted to pursue a career in medicine in the second grade, thanks to a career day at his school on the island of Bermuda.
This month, Robert A. Winn returns to his role as guest editor of The Cancer Letter and the Cancer History Project during Black History Month.
Edith P. Mitchell, a medical oncologist, champion of health equity, and the first woman physician to attain the rank of U.S. Air Force brigadier general, died unexpectedly Jan. 21. She was 76.
Edith P. Mitchell, a pioneering researcher in cancer health disparities, director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, professor of medicine and medical oncology, and enterprise vice president for cancer disparities at Jefferson Health’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, died Jan. 21.
As Joe Simone said, “Once you have seen one cancer center, you have seen one cancer center.” This statement is certainly true of the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center (UHCC).
As I step down as medical director of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute (HFGCCRI) at Christiana Care later this year and assume the position of director of the Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research at the HFGCCRI, I can reflect back on the success of cancer care in Delaware.
Care for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related squamous cell cancers of the oropharynx (an area in back of the throat) is shifting toward community cancer centers, but patients treated in this setting may be less likely to survive, according to new research by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Head and Neck Cancer Center.
Patients treated with first-line immunotherapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer showed similar results in terms of survival, progression-free survival, and treatment duration, regardless of race or ethnicity, even with differences in income and insurance, a study published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network showed.
For many individuals living in the rural 23-county area of North Central Florida served by the UF Health Cancer Center, access to mammography services for breast cancer screening is limited.
