NCI Renews Comprehensive Designation for Georgetown Lombardi
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
The National Cancer Institute has awarded its most prestigious designation—"Comprehensive" Cancer Center status—to Georgetown University’s Lomba…
Partnership Established With Ukrainian Cancer Center
UK Markey Cancer Center
UK Markey Cancer Center has formed an international partnership with the Kyiv Regional Oncology Dispensary, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The institutions will engage in mutu…
Northwell Health Cancer Institute
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute and its Center for Genomic Medicine has opened a clinical molecular diagnostics laboratory. The $3.2 million, 2,800 squa…
New Study to Find Out What Drives Cancer in Asian Americans
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
UC San Francisco researchers have received $12.45 million from the National Cancer Institute to lead the first long-term study of cancer am…
Proximity to a Cancer Center Contributes to Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University
Location, race and insurance status play a significant part in the odds of a patient being diagnosed with early-stage or l…
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
A new UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center program, led by Itzhak Nir, MD, reduces the burden of care by bringing New Mexico’s community provide…
Program for Reducing Allergic Reactions to Cancer Treatments Hits New Care Milestone
Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
An outpatient cancer therapy desensitization program at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center has completed 200 procedures, allowing p…
Loggers Recognized as National Palliative Care Leader
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Elizabeth Loggers, MD, PhD, has been recognized as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The…
Grant Funds Study of Novel Drug for Immunotherapy Treatment of Melanoma
University of Florida Health Cancer Center
With a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute, UF Health Cancer Center researchers will study how a novel small-molecule dr…
Clinical and Translational Researcher Leads Phase I Clinical Trials
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University
Karmanos Cancer Institute welcomes Wasif Saif, MD, MBBS, as the new leader of the Phase I Clinical Trials Multidisciplinary Team and co-leader…
The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
Joseph A. Sparano, MD, was selected as the 2024 OncLive Giant of Cancer Care in Breast Cancer. The Giants of Cancer Care program honors the accomplishments …
$3.3 Million Awarded to Develop Risk-Based Approach to Thyroid Cancer Survivorship Care
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Do all thyroid cancer survivors need the same level of follow-up care and monitoring? With a new $3.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institut…
Quadruple Therapies and the Future of Multiple Myeloma Treatment
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
The treatment landscape for multiple myeloma is shifting rapidly. Over the last decade, options have evolved from double to triple to…
Wetter Recognized for Exemplary Leadership in Cancer Equity Initiatives
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
David W. Wetter, PhD, senior director for cancer health equity science at Huntsman Cancer Institute, has been awarded the Society of Behavioral Me…
Research Shows Muscle, Fat Strongly Linked to Survival in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and five partner institutions are shedding light on how body composition at the time of diagn…
Stanford Cancer Institute
In April, Stanford administered the first lifileucel infusion after the treatment received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in February. Lifileucel (Amtagvi…
This bill requires health plans that cover anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable cost sharing for patient-administered anticancer medications.
This bill waives Medicare coinsurance requirements with respect to colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of the code billed for a resulting diagnosis or procedure, was signed into law as a pr…
This bill requires a group health plan to establish an exception to medication step-therapy protocol in specified cases. A medication step-therapy protocol establishes a specific sequence in which pr…
This bill temporarily authorizes the interstate provision of mental health telehealth services during a declared national emergency.
Specifically, subject to scope of practice and other requirements,…
Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
This bill allows, beginning in 2028, for Medicare coverage and payment for multi-cancer early detection screening tests that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration and that are used to scre…
Research Investment to Spark the Economy Act of 2021 (RISE Act)
This bill would authorize appropriations for offsetting the costs related to reductions in research productivity resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
This bill is the Promoting Resources to Expand Vaccination, Education and New Treatments for HPV Cancers Act or the PREVENT HPV Cancers Act with the ultimate goal of preventing HPV-related cancers.
This bill expands Medicare coverage of intensive behavioral therapy for obesity. Specifically, the bill allows coverage for therapy that is provided by (1) a physician who is not a primary care physi…
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of germline mutation testing for individuals with a personal or family history of a hereditary cancer gene mutation or suspected history of hereditary cancer,…
The main provisions of this bill are: 1) enabling more routine financial support from trial sponsors for patient non-medical costs associated with clinical trial participation, 2) clarifying sponsors…
Description for 117th Congress: To conduct or support cancer research, the bill would appropriate, for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2027, to the National Institutes of Health, out of amounts in …
The Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act (H.R. 4189/S.2016) was initially introduced in 2016. Reintroduced in 2023, the comprehensive, bic…
$2.7 Million Grant to Explore Hypoxia Impact on Blood Stem Cells
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
Indiana University School of Medicine scientists are on a mission to understand why hematopoietic stem cells exhibit better…
Cedars-Sinai Cancer
Cedars-Sinai Cancer has selected radiation oncology physicist Indrin Chetty, PhD, as the new vice chair of Research and director of the Medical Physics Division in the Depa…
Widening Inequality Seen Where Cancer Clinical Trials Are Available
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
A new study shows that opportunities to join a cancer clinical trial have remained scarce in certain counties considered to be socially vulnerable, w…
The University of Arizona Cancer Center
If you could imagine the ideal physician to serve as the medical director for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and lead the University of Arizona Cancer Center co…
Thoracic Chair Tapped as Chief Strategy Officer, Senior VP of Business Development and Outreach
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Sai Yendamuri, MD, MBA, FACS, as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of Business De…
New Therapeutic Target in Advanced Prostate Cancer Uncovered
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Jefferson
New research has uncovered a previously unknown and unexpected mechanism of active Stat5 signaling pathway as an inducer of androgen rece…
New Treatment May Enable More Patients With High Risk Blood Cancers to Receive Stem Cell Transplants
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami
A new treatment approach using an older drug may enable more patients with high-risk blood cancers to receive transplanted stem cells…
Strengthening CAR T Therapy to Work Against Solid Tumors
Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center
Researchers at Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown that a breakthrough therapy for treating blood cancers can be adapted …
