Mortality declines for many childhood cancers have slowed since the mid-1990s, and few new cancer drugs are being developed for children, according to the “Pediatric Cancer Landscape 2026” report published Sept. 29. The report — a joint effort between the…
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The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has selected four multi-institutional teams to receive Endeavor Awards totaling $12 million. Each team, comprising researchers from 11 academic institutions across five countries, will receive $3 million over three years, according to an Oct.…
Cancer patients enrolled in a digital symptom-monitoring program after hospital discharge had a 30-day readmission rate 7 percentage points lower than patients receiving usual care, according to a study published in npj Digital Medicine. Researchers from New York City-based Memorial…
Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health has joined the Chicago Breast Cancer Research Consortium, established by the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation. The consortium was founded in 2024 with University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center…
U.S. counties with higher shares of residents carrying medical debt in collections had higher rates of late-stage cancer diagnoses, according to an Oct. 1 study in JAMA Network Open. Researchers from Baltimore-based Sinai Hospital, the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society and…
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A vaccine developed at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center extended median survival by four months among glioblastoma patients 65 and younger. Roswell Park researchers and MimiVax, a biotech company spun out of the cancer center, tested the SurVaxM…
Adults with disabilities had lower breast and cervical cancer screening rates than adults without disabilities, according to a study published Sept. 10 in Cancer. Researchers from Atlanta-based American Cancer Society analyzed 2021 and 2023 National Health Interview Survey data to…
Cancer patients who asymptomatically carried Clostridioides difficile may drive the majority of new cases within inpatient cancer units, according to a study published Oct. 1 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Researchers from Raleigh-based North Carolina State University and St.…
New York City-based Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has halved the time its research teams spend entering clinical trial data by linking its EHR directly to trial data systems. The technology, which the cancer center implemented in 2025, pulls patient…
A digital tool cut the time it took specialists to reach a treatment decision for patients with bone metastases by more than 90%, according to research presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s 2026 annual meeting. Researchers from Weston,…