Women In Oncology

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute awarded almost $10.5 million to Alliance NCTN Foundation to assess the value of remote digital screening for financial hardship to improve patient-centered outcomes in patients with cancer.

Both male and female patients experienced lower mortality and readmission rates when treated by female physicians, according to study results published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Women in medicine reported an overall perception of academic medicine as a “male-centric system misaligned with the needs of women,” according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Every founder and entrepreneur is looking to solve a problem or create something that they wish they would have had for themselves, according to Jacqueline Winkelmann, MD, FAAP.

Healio continues its partnership with the Women in Medicine Summit in support of the much-anticipated 6th annual gathering in September.

The prevalence of training physicians’ experience of sexual harassment decreased, though the prevalence of sexual coercion doubled, with three in four female interns experiencing sexual harassment in 2023, according to study results.

American Association for Cancer Research will posthumously honor former chief of the NCI Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group, Worta McCaskill-Stevens, MD, with the Distinguished Public Service Award.

Camille C. R. Ragin, PhD, will be awarded the 2024 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Award Lectureship during the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Healio spoke with oncologist and researcher Pamela Kunz, MD, who was recently named the inaugural editor-in-chief of JCO Oncology Advances, a new open-access and interdisciplinary journal.

There are many aspects of my identity as a Black female medical student.