Up to 15% of U.S. counties—home to about 25 million Americans—fall outside the reach of the catchment area of this country’s cancer centers.
Drawing on Charles Dickens, NCI Acting Director Douglas Lowy has a teaching moment for oncology: we live in the best of times as well as the worst of times, because only fragments of human society—both in the United States and in low- and middle-income countries—fully benefit from modern cancer care.
Discovery of new cancer treatments and detection tools makes it all the more urgent to address health disparities, the American Association for Cancer Research 2022 Cancer Progress Report said.
Moffitt Cancer Center has conducted the first prospective study to investigate genomic biomarkers associated with aggressive disease in African American men with prostate cancer, a population with disparities in incidence and mortality.
Richard B. Warnecke, PhD, a longtime member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center and a national leader in cancer control research, died Aug. 19. He was 84.
The California State Legislature passed the California Cancer Care Equity Act (SB 987), a bill that would expand access to specialized cancer care for Medi-Cal patients who receive a complex cancer diagnosis.
Research shows that cancer patients who receive navigation have improved survival, access to advanced care like clinical trials, and services like genetic testing and palliative care. Navigation often results in increased screening and patients receiving treatment sooner, resulting in improved quality of life and more cancer-free days.
Karen E. Knudsen has spent the past year bringing the American Cancer Society into the 21st century.
As conservative legislatures take the cue from the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade by enacting abortion restrictions, oncologists in many states are scrambling to figure out how to best care for their pregnant patients, said Alice Mims, a hematologist-oncologist at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James.
A journey through cancer treatment can be grueling, unforgiving, and treacherous for both patient and physician. But what happens when a pregnancy complicates the treatment?
