2020 News

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

Posted December 4, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

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

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

Posted November 4, 2020
Source: CTAC Working Group

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

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

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

Posted October 15, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

Results from the Molecular Analysis of the Initial Screening Phase of the NCI-MATCH Trial

Posted October 19, 2020
Source: DCTD News

NCI Launches the Cancer Moonshot℠ Biobank to Procure and Distribute Longitudinal Patient Biospecimens for Cancer Research

Posted October 19, 2020
Source: DCTD News

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

Posted September 16, 2020
Source: DCTD News

Trastuzumab May Improve Survival in Women with Rare Endometrial Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Elise Kohn, MD

Posted September 14, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

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

Posted July 31, 2020
Source: DCTD News

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) Announces Its First COVID-19 Data Set Available to the Scientific Community

Posted July 31, 2020
Source: DCTD News

Rediscovered Drugs Hit Leukemia from Two Different Angles; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Joel Morris, PhD

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

Posted July 1, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

Responding to Coronavirus, Cancer Researchers Reimagine Clinical Trials; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Meg Mooney, MD

Posted June 29, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

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

Posted: June 29, 2020
Source: DCTD News

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

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

Posted May 11, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

Encorafenib, Cetuximab Combination Approved for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Carmen Allegra, MD

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

Posted April 23, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

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

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

Posted January 28, 2020
Source: NCI Cancer Currents Blog

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

Posted: January 3, 2020
Source: DCTD News