NCI cuts programs by 5% and non-competing renewals by 3% to maintain paylines in fiscal 2019

Trump targets HHS in $810M appropriations clawback

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By Sara Willa Ernst

Cancer Policy

NIH introduces “Linked Discoveries,” a PubMed tool aimed at strengthening research replication, reproducibility

NIH has introduced Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help scientists more easily see how an individual research finding relates to the larger body of biomedical evidence.

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Podcast

The Galleri MCD vote: What FDA asked its advisors to ignore

In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, managing editor, discuss the Sept. 23 meeting of the FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, during which the panel voted in favor of Galleri, the multi-cancer detection test from GRAIL Inc., to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.

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Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Two Gulf Coast cancer center directors on why NCI designation matters—and why they want it
Lucio Miele and Raghu Kalluri: Science and technology have changed what an aspiring cancer center must accomplish

What should a cancer center look like in an era of AI, genomics, complex patient populations, rising costs, and declining public trust in science?

September 25, 2026

Vol.52 No.35

By Claire Marie Porter and Paul Goldberg

News Analysis Regulatory News

FDA advisory committee votes in favor of Galleri approval, but calls for removal of “early” detection claims
Clinical benefit will not be considered for approval, FDA says

The FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee voted in favor of Galleri to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.

September 25, 2026

Vol.52 No.35

By Jacquelyn Cobb and Sara Willa Ernst

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NCI cuts programs by 5% and non-competing renewals by 3% to maintain paylines in fiscal 2019

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The Directors: Two Gulf Coast cancer center directors on why NCI designation matters—and why they want it
Lucio Miele and Raghu Kalluri: Science and technology have changed what an aspiring cancer center must accomplish

FDA advisory committee votes in favor of Galleri approval, but calls for removal of “early” detection claims
Clinical benefit will not be considered for approval, FDA says