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Recent Cancer Currents Blogs Featuring DCB-Funded Research and/or Perspectives
- As Rates of Some Cancers Increase in Younger People, Researchers Search for Answers
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Recent NCI Research Matters Articles Featuring DCB-Funded Research
Upcoming Events
January 27, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Cancer AI Conversation: Evaluating Generative AI Use in Healthcare Delivery
Drs. Nigam Shah (Stanford University) and Aaron Boussina will discuss the evaluation of generative AI in healthcare delivery during a webinar moderated by Dr. Sarah Dunsmore (NCATS).
January 29, 2026 (2:00 - 3:00 pm ET)
Building Bridges in Cancer Symptom Science Webinar: Impact of Cancer and Cancer Treatment on Bone Health
Dr. Theresa Guise (MD Anderson) will provide an overview of bone health and cancer treatment-induced bone destruction, and Dr. Xiang Zhang (Baylor College of Medicine) will discuss metastasis and bone fragility during a webinar moderated by Drs. Faye Chen (NIAMS) and Christine Nadeau (NCI Division of Cancer Biology).
February 12, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System Webinar: Peripheral Nerve-Tumor Interactions and Cancer Progression
Drs. Timothy Wang (Columbia University) and Veena Padmanaban (Rockefeller University) will discuss the role of nerve-cancer interactions in tumor progression.
February 12, 2026 (12:00 - 1:30 pm ET)
Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes Forum: Events that Facilitate Metastasis to the Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes
Drs. Jessalyn Ubellacker (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Stefani Spranger (MIT), and Jonathan Villena-Vargas (Weill Cornell) will discuss mechanisms that promote the spread of cancer to tumor-draining lymph nodes during a virtual forum moderated by Dr. Timothy Padera (MGH).
March 12, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System Webinar: Neural Mimicry, Bioelectrical Signaling, and Metastatic Progression
Drs. Leanne Li (Francis Crick Institute) and Madeleine Oudin (Tufts University) will share research related to neural mimicry, bioelectrical signaling, and the spread of cancer.
March 19, 2026
Cancer Target Discovery and Development (CTD2) Network Virtual Symposium
CTD2 investigators will share their functional cancer genomics research that is bridging the gap between large-scale genomic datasets and the underlying etiology of cancer development, progression, and metastasis.
April 30, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System Webinar: Perineural Invasion
Drs. Moran Amit (MD Anderson) and Richard Wong (MSKCC) will discuss the role of perineural invasion in cancer.