DCTD Programs
2020 News
![DCTD Convenes Second Workshop on Cell-Based Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors](/NewsEvents/20210205_workshopTHUMB.jpg)
DCTD Convenes Second Workshop on Cell-Based Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors
Posted February 5, 2021
Source: DCTD Meetings
![Nanoparticle Trains Immune Cells to Attack Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Dr. Christina Liu](/NewsEvents/20201204_NanoparticleTHUMB.jpg)
Nanoparticle Trains Immune Cells to Attack Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Dr. Christina Liu
Posted December 4, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Some Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer May Forgo Chemotherapy; NCI Press Release](/NewsEvents/20201214_some_postmenopausal_womenTHUMB.jpg)
Some Postmenopausal Women with Breast Cancer May Forgo Chemotherapy; NCI Press Release
Posted December 9, 2020
Source: NCI Press Release
![Study of “Exceptional Responders” Yields Clues to Cancer and Potential Treatments](/NewsEvents/20201120_exceptional_respondersTHUMB.jpg)
Study of “Exceptional Responders” Yields Clues to Cancer and Potential Treatments
Posted November 19, 2020
Source: NCI Press Release
![NCI Clinical Trials and Translational Research Advisory Committee (CTAC) Strategic Planning Working Group Report; November 4, 2020](/NewsEvents/20201104_ctacTHUMB.jpg)
Posted November 4, 2020
Source: CTAC Working Group
![DCTD’s Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Convenes 2020 Early Drug Development Meeting](/NewsEvents/20201103_Early_Drug_Development_MeetingTHUMB.jpg)
DCTD’s Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program Convenes 2020 Early Drug Development Meeting
Posted November 2, 2020
Source: DCTD Meetings
![Radiopharmaceuticals: Radiation Therapy Enters the Molecular Age; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Jacek Capala, PhD, and Charles Kunos, MD, PhD](/NewsEvents/20201103_RadiopharmaceuticalsTHUMB.jpg)
Posted October 26, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Nivolumab Improves Survival for Some Patients with Advanced Stomach Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Carmen Allegra, MD](/NewsEvents/20201103_NivolumabTHUMB.jpg)
Posted October 20, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![FDA Approves Blood Tests That Can Help Guide Cancer Treatment; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Ana Robles, PhD](/NewsEvents/20201103_FDATHUMB.jpg)
Posted October 15, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Results from the Molecular Analysis of the Initial Screening Phase of the NCI-MATCH Trial](/NewsEvents/20201019_Results_from_the_Molecular_AnalysisTHUMB.jpg)
Results from the Molecular Analysis of the Initial Screening Phase of the NCI-MATCH Trial
Posted October 19, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![Photo of cancer patient](/NewsEvents/20201019_Cancer_Moonshot_Biobank_thumb.jpg)
Posted October 19, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![A plan for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat a metastatic lung tumor.](/NewsEvents/20201019_Metastatic_Cancer_thumb.jpg)
A More Treatable Kind of Metastatic Cancer?; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Bhadrasain Vikram, MD
Posted October 5, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![The NCI Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN) Expands Clinical Trial Outreach through Administrative Supplements](/NewsEvents/20200915_etctn_thumb.jpg)
Posted September 16, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![Trastuzumab May Improve Survival in Women with Rare Endometrial Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Elise Kohn, MD](/NewsEvents/20200914_Trastuzumab_thumb.jpg)
Posted September 14, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![DCTD’s Translational Research Program Announces Fiscal Year 2020 SPORE Grantees](/NewsEvents/20200914_SPORE_grantees_thumb.jpg)
DCTD’s Translational Research Program Announces Fiscal Year 2020 SPORE Grantees
Posted September 14, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![DCTD Seeking Project Proposals for Viral Vector and Cell Therapy Production at NCI](/NewsEvents/20200731_DCTD_Seeking_Project_Proposals_thumb.jpg)
DCTD Seeking Project Proposals for Viral Vector and Cell Therapy Production at NCI
Posted July 31, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) Announces Its First COVID-19 Data Set Available to the Scientific Community](/NewsEvents/20200731_TCIA_thumb.jpg)
Posted July 31, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![Rediscovered Drugs Hit Leukemia from Two Different Angles; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Joel Morris, PhD](/NewsEvents/20200731_Rediscovered_Drugs_thumb.jpg)
Posted July 21, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![New Drug Regimen Cures More Children with Aggressive B-Cell Lymphoma; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Malcolm Smith, MD, PhD](/NewsEvents/20200702_new_drug_regimen_thumb.jpg)
Posted July 1, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Responding to Coronavirus, Cancer Researchers Reimagine Clinical Trials; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Meg Mooney, MD](/NewsEvents/20200702_st_jude_thumb.jpg)
Posted June 29, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![The Cancer Imaging Program Convenes CIRP Annual Virtual Meeting 2020](/NewsEvents/20200629_cip_convenes-cirp_virtual_meeting_thumb.jpg)
The Cancer Imaging Program Convenes CIRP Annual Virtual Meeting 2020
Posted: June 29, 2020
Source: DCTD Meetings
![NCI’s Patient-Derived Models Repository and The Cancer Imaging Archive Announce Identification and Imaging Characterization of Metastatic Patient-Derived Models](/NewsEvents/20200629_pdmr_tcia_thumb.jpg)
Posted: June 29, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![Schedule of DCTD Presentations at ASCO 2020 (May 29-31, 2020)](/NewsEvents/asco2020_thumb.jpg)
Schedule of DCTD Presentations at ASCO 2020 (May 29-31, 2020)
Posted: May 29, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![How Does COVID-19 Affect People with Cancer? NCI Plans to Find Out; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring James Doroshow, MD](/NewsEvents/05222020_thumb.jpg)
Posted May 21, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![PSMA PET-CT Accurately Detects Prostate Cancer Spread, Trial Shows; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Lalitha Shankar, MD, PhD](/NewsEvents/05112020_thumb.jpg)
Posted May 11, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Encorafenib, Cetuximab Combination Approved for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Carmen Allegra, MD](/NewsEvents/05082020_thumb.jpg)
Posted May 8, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![NCI Initiative Aims to Boost CAR T-cell Therapy Clinical Trials; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Anthony Welch, PhD](/NewsEvents/04232020_thumb.jpg)
Posted April 23, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![NCI Requests Letters of Intent for Laboratories to Participate in the NCI-ComboMATCH Clinical Trial](/NewsEvents/20200408_combomatch_thumb.jpg)
NCI Requests Letters of Intent for Laboratories to Participate in the NCI-ComboMATCH Clinical Trial
Posted March 18, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![Is Proton Therapy Safer than Traditional Radiation; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Jeffrey Buchsbaum, MD, PhD<](/NewsEvents/20200213_proton_therapy_thumb.jpg)
Posted February 11, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![Off Target: Investigating the Abscopal Effect as a Treatment for Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Mansoor Ahmed, PhD<](/NewsEvents/20200213_off_target_thumb.jpg)
Posted January 28, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog
![DCTD Scientists Develop a Clinical Monitoring Tool for Epithelial-Mesenchymal Phenotype](/NewsEvents/20200116_Epithelial-Mesenchymal_Phenotype_thumb.jpg)
DCTD Scientists Develop a Clinical Monitoring Tool for Epithelial-Mesenchymal Phenotype
Posted: January 16, 2020
Source: DCTD News
![NCI-funded Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment Network (PaCMEN) Stimulates Research to Design New Immunotherapies and Interventions](/NewsEvents/20200102_PaCMEN_thumb.jpg)
Posted: January 3, 2020
Source: DCTD News