Short Shrift in Cancer Funding; Bypassing Familiar for Distant; Testing for BRCA

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Onco Break over a computer rendering of a cancer cell.

A number of common cancers associated with high mortality and cancers more likely to affect Black patients receive for research and advocacy. (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

The for locally advanced unresectable/metastatic HER2-negative, CLDN 18.2-positive gastric cancer because of issues with a third-party manufacturing facility, Astellas Pharma announced.

The Department of Justice announced that Moffit Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, agreed to pay more than $19.5 million to resolve civil liability related to alleged to Medicare and other government healthcare programs.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced a public , ending January 31, for a draft research proposal involving medications to reduce breast cancer risk.

Why did almost a third of patients who had -- breast conserving or mastectomy -- bypass the nearest surgical center? (Cancer)

Having established a role in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, B-cell malignancies, and myeloma, showed promise in an early study of T-cell malignancies. (Baylor College of Medicine, Blood)

A sex-specific panel of 10 proteins identified representing all major organs, opening a new possibility for early cancer detection. (BMJ Oncology)

Analysis of cellular changes in identified three patient subgroups whose tumors responded to different combinations of radiation therapy and immunotherapy, a step toward precision therapy for the aggressive disease. (Cedars-Sinai, Cancer Cell)

All women younger than 65 with newly diagnosed breast cancer should have , according to a new guideline from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society of Surgical Oncology.

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    Charles Bankhead is senior editor for oncology and also covers urology, dermatology, and ophthalmology. He joined in 2007.