National Cancer Institute

People with cancer should receive “current, accurate and digestible” information that allows them to be “active stakeholders” in their cancer journey, according to NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC.

A new initiative to rapidly place individuals with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome in clinical trials based on their genomic profiles has opened in the United States and Canada.

Diversity and equity in health care doesn’t just benefit underrepresented populations.

A novel immunotherapy approach for solid, epithelial cancers reduced tumor burden among multiple patients with metastatic colon cancer, according to phase 2 study results.

A longitudinal cohort study has yielded new insights into risks for and long-term effects of cisplatin-related hearing loss.

The rate of cancer-related suicides in the U.S. declined considerably in the past few decades, results of a population-based retrospective study published in Translational Psychiatry showed.

Underweight childhood cancer survivors are at an increased risk for late mortality, according to data from a retrospective cohort study published in Pediatric Blood & Cancer.

A simultaneous, multidrug, multi-targeted treatment regimen produced remissions in patients with certain types of relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in a phase 1b/phase 2 study.

CHICAGO — An application-based intervention improved communication about advance care planning between oncologists and patients with advanced cancers, according to randomized study results presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, feels honored to receive this year’s ASCO Humanitarian Award.