As the Trump administration reshapes the cancer research enterprise that was built on the foundation of the National Cancer Act of 1971, the Cancer History Project presents an eyewitness account of the impact of this landmark law.
Shearwood McClelland III’s grandfather was a ditchdigger who dreamed that his six Black daughters would become doctors. McClelland’s mother did not disappoint—she became the first Black woman board-certified in maternal fetal medicine in the history of the United States. Now, McClelland is the chief medical officer of Cancer Health Equity at the University of Oklahoma... […]
Those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods have significantly higher activity of stress-related genes, research suggests, which could contribute to higher rates of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men.
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center—published this month in Drug Resistance Updates—revealed a previously unknown biological process through which breast tumor cells develop resistance to standard treatment. It could open the door for cancer scientists to further target this vulnerability and create more effective therapies for disease.
Anthony Faber, a professor in the Philips Institute for Oral Health Research at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry and Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received four grants totaling more than $6.3 million to aid in the development of new targeted therapies for neuroblastoma and synovial sarcoma.
VCU Massey Cancer Center has changed its name to VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center in recognition of its recent comprehensive status from NCI (The Cancer Letter, May 31, 2023).
Mariza Daras was named chief of the Division of Neuro-Oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Department of Neurology at VCU School of Medicine.
David Wheeler, member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center, was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million R01 grant from NCI to study thelong-term effects of neighborhood exposures and racial segregation on cancer risk through the use of innovative statistical models and analysis.
A team of clinical psychologists at VCU Massey Cancer Center received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to help treat insomnia among military members, veterans, their beneficiaries and the general public who have been diagnosed with brain cancer.
VCU Massey Cancer Center can now add the word “Comprehensive” to its name.
