A collaborative effort to eliminate cancer health disparities among African Americans and other underserved populations in the Washington, DC, area is being reignited at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Howard University Cancer Center.
The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center and the John A. Burns School of Medicine are forming Ka ʻUmeke Lama, an initiative to transform cancer care in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
In December, Congress failed to advance a bipartisan year-end health care package that would have made a big difference in the fight against cancer, according to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
Acting Director Dr. Krzysztof Ptak’s words reverberated throughout the meeting room—and the heads of several of us—during the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Centers update on the final day of the 2024 Association of American Cancer Institutes/Cancer Center Administrators Forum Annual Meeting in Chicago.
Virginia Commonwealth University has been awarded a five-year, $9 million grant from NCI to establish a pioneering Cancer Control Equity Research Center. This initiative aims to enhance the dissemination and implementation of health promotion and cancer prevention services for individuals and families residing in Virginia’s Housing and Urban Development-administered income-based housing communities in the Greater Richmond region and Hampton Roads.
The President’s Cancer Panel released a report, Enhancing Patient Navigation with Technology to Improve Equity in Cancer Care, as part of a White House event acknowledging advancements in navigation support for cancer patients over the past year. The report calls on healthcare organizations, policymakers, and technology developers to keep pace with the rapid advancement and adoption of new technology.
UVA Cancer Center, Appalachian Community Cancer Alliance, and Buchanan General Hospital have teamed up to make getting screened for lung cancer easier for residents of rural Virginia and West Virginia.
Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and Cure4Cancer jointly published “Advancing Global Health Equity: Expanding the U.S.-Australia Cancer Alliance Toward an Asia-Pacific Collaborative Effort to Save Millions of Lives.”
Colorectal cancer screening is an effective tool for catching the disease early when it’s most treatable, yet it is underutilized in patient populations who receive primary care at federally qualified health centers.
A new nationwide survey of more than 750 radiation oncologists confirms that prior authorization harms people with cancer by causing treatment delays, abandoned treatments, hospitalizations and patient deaths.
