NCI and Cancer Research UK have awarded $100 million in total funding through the Cancer Grand Challenges program, supporting research into solid tumors in children, cachexia, extrachromosomal DNA, and tumor development.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
