Together for Supportive Cancer Care, a national coalition that will work to expand early, equitable access to whole-person, supportive care for all people with cancer, regardless of where they receive care, has launched.
As we come within a stone’s throw of Nov. 5, we can’t help but wonder if and how the election outcome will impact health care policy, and cancer policy in particular.
Hispanic and Latino people comprise nearly 20% of the U.S. population, but less than 6% of physicians nationwide identify as Hispanic.
In 2004, doctors told my husband Mike there was nothing more they could do—the pancreatic cancer he was diagnosed with would soon take his life.
The American Cancer Society released Breast Cancer Statistics, 2024, the organization’s biennial update on breast cancer occurrence and trends in the United States.
Continuity of Medicaid coverage increases the survival rates of children and adolescents with cancer, according to research published in JCO Oncology Practice.
Researchers from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center were awarded a $3 million grant from NIH to improve follow-up care for colorectal cancer screening in underserved populations.
Sanya A. Springfield will join the Office of the NCI Director as an acting deputy director, charged with broadening and strengthening cancer health equity and inclusion programs, effective in the coming weeks.
Artificial intelligence is starting to transform life sciences by accelerating drug discovery and development, optimizing clinical trials, and creating personalized treatments for cancer patients, speakers said at the Sept. 18 unveiling of the American Association for Cancer Research 2024 Cancer Progress Report.
The American Association for Cancer Research will award Scarlett Lin Gomez with the 2024 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities during the 17th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved to be held in Los Angeles Sept. 21-24.
