Physicians and biopharma should improve accessibility of cancer trials

Clinical Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Will MCD tests revolutionize cancer screening? NCI begins enrollment in Vanguard “feasibility” trial to start finding out

The first large cancer screening/early detection initiative to be launched in 2025—the NCI-funded Vanguard study of multi-cancer detection tests—has started accruing patients through nine sites across the U.S.

July 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.29

By Sara Willa Ernst, Jacquelyn Cobb and Paul Goldberg

City of Hope brings evidence-based approaches to integrative oncology

The landscape of cancer care is evolving rapidly, with growing recognition that optimal patient outcomes require a whole-person care approach that goes beyond cytotoxic and targeted therapies.

Ohio State launches pancreatic cancer trial via telehealth

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer has launched a first-of-its-kind clinical trial.

July 18, 2025

Vol.51 No.28

Clinical Roundup

Scientists wipe out aggressive brain cancer tumors by targeting cellular “motors”

A potential treatment for glioblastoma crafted by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute renders the deadly brain cancer newly sensitive to both radiation and chemotherapy drugs, and blocks the cancer’s ability to invade other tissue, a new study shows.

July 03, 2025

Vol.51 No.26

Clinical Roundup

Rucaparib maintenance therapy demonstrates PFS benefit for HRD-negative and HRD-positive ovarian cancer

First-line rucaparib maintenance treatment provided a progression-free survival benefit vs placebo in newly diagnosed, advanced, high-grade ovarian cancer after front-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

June 27, 2025

Vol.51 No.25

Cancer Policy

FDA halts new clinical trials that export Americans’ cells to foreign labs in hostile countries

FDA has announced that the agency will begin immediately reviewing all new clinical trials that include shipping American citizens’ living cells to “China and other hostile countries for genetic engineering and subsequent infusion” back into American patients.

June 20, 2025

Vol.51 No.24

By Claire Marie Porter

Physicians and biopharma should improve accessibility of cancer trials

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