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• The Cancer Grand Challenges Program Awards $100 Million To Four Research Teams

  June 16, 2022 | Forbes
  The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced on Thursday that four international research teams had been selected to receive a total of $100 million as part of the Cancer Grand Challenges program. Each team will receive $25 million over five years as it tackles one of cancer’s most challenging problems.

• Screening and Early Treatment Reduce Anal Cancer in People With HIV

  June 17, 2022 | POZ
  Screening people with HIV for precancerous anal cell changes and treating them promptly lowered the risk of progression to anal cancer by more than half, according to results from the ANCHOR study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

• 'We still are dying at alarming rates': Black cancer death rates are falling but remain higher than others, study finds

  May 19, 2022 | USA Today
  Despite declining cancer death rates, Black people still died of cancer at higher rates than any other racial group, a new study shows.

• Study uncovers clues to rise in uterine cancer death rates

  May 5, 2022 | AP News
  A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in U.S. deaths from the disease, particularly among Black women, researchers reported Thursday.

• NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH study shows benefit of genetic screening in refractory tumors

  April 4, 2022 | Baylor College of Medicine
  Cancer therapies targeting specific genetic mutations may offer benefits to patients for whom other standard chemotherapy treatments have not effectively treated their tumor. However, genetic screening of tumors is not routinely performed for pediatric and young adult cancer patients. To increase access to tumor genetic screening and study the utility of this strategy, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) partnered to create the NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH trial

• NCI program to provide molecular characterization of childhood cancers

  March 21, 2022 | Healio
  Dr. Brigitte Widemann talks about the Molecular Characterization Initiative.

• Global Health and the National Cancer Institute

  January 27, 2022 | That Medic Podcast
  In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Satish Gopal, Director of the Center for Global Health at the National Cancer Institute. We discussed why students should care about global health, his experience as the only certified medical oncologist in Malawi, a country of 18 million, and how he is helping bridge disparities in the global cancer burden.
  

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• Cancer death rates among Black people declined over time, but remain higher than other racial and ethnic groups

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• Uterine Cancer—Patient Version

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• NCI COVID-19 in Cancer Patients Study (NCCAPS)

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• Cancer Cabinet Community Conversations: Doubling Clinical Trials Accrual

  The National Cancer Institute hosted a virtual roundtable titled “Cancer Cabinet Community Conversations: Doubling Clinical Trials Accrual” as part of a series of coordinated Cancer Cabinet Community Conversations on May 4, 2022, as part of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative. This is a recording on YouTube.