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... […]
NCI is asking for an appropriation of $7.8 billion for fiscal year 2023—about $800 million above the House’s FY22 proposed budget for NCI.
NCI has renewed the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation.
A Congressional letter is asking NIH to describe the procedures employed for rooting out sexual misconduct committed by advisors.
First published in 1977, Cancer Crusade: The Story of the National Cancer Act of 1971, is a dispassionate legislative history—a book you can trust.
Directors of the first three NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers are learning from the past, starting with the National Cancer Act, and mapping an equitable future for oncology.
The vast majority of hospitals in the United States—up to 80%—treat patient populations that are disproportionately white, U.S. News & World Report said, unveiling a new suite of health equity measures earlier this week.
When Ben Harder and his team of health analysts at U.S. News & World Report developed a suite of health equity measures for America’s hospitals, they expected to find some level of disparity, but nothing prepared them for the shocking magnitude of inequity they uncovered.
