Research

The University of Alabama at Birmingham O’Neal Cancer Center will expand and name its clinical trials program after receiving a $5 million gift.  The Estes Family Clinical Trials Program at the UAB O’Neal Cancer Center is named in honor of…

Cancer research groups and industry leaders are trying to raise awareness of a surgery that could reduce patients’ ovarian cancer risk by almost 80% — fallopian tube removal. While evidence of the surgery’s nearly 80% risk reduction was published Feb.…

Patients diagnosed with autism are 35.6% less likely to receive cancer screening within one year of reaching screening eligibility despite being diagnosed at roughly the same rate as the general population. As a result, patients with autism are more likely…

The National Cancer Institute has appointed Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD, director of the Center for Cancer Research.  Dr. Muthuswamy previously served as chief of the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics within the Center for Cancer Research, according to a July…

Cancer care providers were about three times more likely than cancer survivors to report awareness of medical cannabis’s potential risks, according to a study published June 20 in the Journal of Cancer Education. Researchers at Richmond, Va.-based VCU Massey Comprehensive…

In January, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched an investigation into potential abuse of the federal H-1B visa program, directing all state agencies and public universities to freeze new H-1B visa applications and submit H-1B utilization information to the Texas Workforce…