As Trump’s HHS pick, RFK Jr. stands to honor or squander the Kennedy legacy in cancer

The faces of RIF: Staff members of NCI’s dissolved communications team gather for a farewell group photo

On May 21, staff members of NCI’s dissolved Office of Communications and Public Liaison and friends gathered at the house of Peter Garrett and Ken Crerar.

May 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.20

Cancer Policy

NCI Cancer Information Highlights bulletin cut due to RIFs

NCI’s Cancer Information Highlights bulletin, a section of NCI’s Weekly Digest Bulletin that informs readers of research updates related to cancer causes, prevention, screening, treatment, and coping, will no longer be published due to restructuring and reductions in force at HHS.

May 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.20

Cancer Policy

House passes Trump’s spending bill, which now moves to the Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on the so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act,” this week which included drastic, $715 billion cuts to Medicaid that will result in at least 8.6 million people losing health insurance coverage, including cancer patients and survivors.

May 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.20

By Claire Marie Porter

Cancer Policy

Appeals court removes block on Trump’s anti-union executive order

A three-judge federal appeals court has lifted a lower court order that blocked the federal government from enacting President Trump’s executive order to end collective bargaining by workers at more than a dozen federal agencies.

May 23, 2025

Vol.51 No.20

By Claire Marie Porter

Podcast The Directors

The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Thomas J. Lynch Jr. and Howard A. “Skip” Burris III lead two institutions that couldn’t be more different—an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center on one side of the country and a for-profit research enterprise on the other—but they stay up at nights worrying about the same thing.

Kennedy’s claims notwithstanding, NCI clinical trials are delayed, enrollments reduced
NCI’s Steven A. Rosenberg: “Almost all patients are getting delayed by about a month, but then again, we’re turning away more patients.”

Natalie Phelps, a 43-year-old mother of two, has stage 4 colorectal cancer. She has become a central figure in the controversy over the dysfunction the Trump administration’s RIFs and budget cuts have brought to NIH.

May 16, 2025

Vol.51 No.19

By Jacquelyn Cobb

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As Trump’s HHS pick, RFK Jr. stands to honor or squander the Kennedy legacy in cancer

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The Directors: Tom Lynch and Skip Burris on how NIH funding cuts imperil biopharma innovation—and cost patient lives
In a time of uncertainty, “react to the knowns, not the fear”

Kennedy’s claims notwithstanding, NCI clinical trials are delayed, enrollments reduced
NCI’s Steven A. Rosenberg: “Almost all patients are getting delayed by about a month, but then again, we’re turning away more patients.”