In an era of intensifying judicial repudiation of evidence-based guidelines and deepening public mistrust toward science, America’s screening rate for cervical cancer has been declining.
St. Jude’s Path to a Bright Future, an HPV awareness and vaccination campaign with nearly 160 partners, is aimed at reducing that disease burden by targeting children in a crucial age range.
The fiscal year 2024 Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies spending bill heading for approval by the House Appropriations Committee cuts NIH by $2.8 billion and NCI by $216 million.
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE), now augmented with the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED), is critical and central to the impact of NCI-designated cancer centers, and both are set forth as required components for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).
The White House has awarded NCI $50 million to establish five centers for cancer control research in persistent poverty areas.
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has received a grant worth $37 million over five years from NCI. At the same time, the center’s designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center” was renewed.
The University of Florida Health Cancer Center has received NCI Cancer Center designation.
NCI has contributed the 2017-2022 annual issues of Milestones, an annual magazine from NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, to the Cancer History Project.
Gov. Jim Justice delivered a $50 million check to West Virginia University’s academic and healthcare leaders in the pursuit of earning an official NCI Designation—a first for West Virginia.
The probability of NCI receiving a boost in funds over the next two years is slim, NCI Director Monica Bertagnolli said at the joint meeting of the National Cancer Advisory Board and Board of Scientific Advisors June 14.
