Richard I. Fisher has stepped down from his roles as Fox Chase Cancer Center president and CEO, Fox Chase Cancer Center director, and senior associate dean for cancer programs at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University.
Scott Lippman is transitioning from his role as director of Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health to become the associate vice chancellor for cancer research and care, with the goal of formally launching the Precancer Genome Atlas.Â
The National Cancer Act of 1971 established an unprecedented government-wide plan to eradicate a major disease, creating institutions that have no equivalent in other therapeutic areas and galvanizing the nationwide conversation about cancer.
Congress needs to increase the FY22 base budgets of NIH and NCI by $3.2 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively, over FY21 levels, the American Association for Cancer Research said in its 2021 Cancer Progress Report.
An argument can be made that only a government research agency like NCI has the capacity to answer questions about monitoring pancreatic cysts—and how some of them turn malignant.
Prevention and early detection trials have been especially vulnerable to being disrupted by the COVID-19 lockdown, and a comparison of two regimens for monitoring pancreatic cysts—EA2185—was more vulnerable than most.
Prevention and early detection studies frequently require engaging physicians from specialties other than oncologists, said Peter O’Dwyer and Mitchell Schnall, co-chairs of ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group.
American cancer patients have collectively gained up to 14 million years of life since 1980 as a result of NCI-funded cancer trials conducted by the National Clinical Trials Network, a study led by SWOG Cancer Research Network found.
On Dec. 8, 2020, a month after losing the election, then-president Donald Trump announced his intent to name 26 people to advisory boards across the federal government. Among them were three would-be members of the National Cancer Advisory Board, and in the months following, these three appointments—which have been blocked and ultimately terminated by the... […]
John A. Ellerton, the principal investigator of the Nevada Cancer Research Foundation NCI Community Oncology Research Program, has won the 2021 Harry Hynes Award. The award is given annually to NCORP PIs for outstanding contribution to clinical trials and community research. In 1983, Ellerton’s group, then called the Southern Nevada Research Foundation, was among the... […]
