Last Updated: 07/24/2017
2017 News
- Posted: 07/24/2017
NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH Trial to Test Drugs Targeted at Mutations in Treatment-Resistant Childhood Cancers; NCI Press Release - Posted: 07/10/2017
Cancer Researchers Report Progress in Studying Exceptional Responders; Cancer Currents blog post featuring Drs. Barbara Conley and Lyndsay Harris - Posted: 07/10/2017
Extensive Lymph Node Surgery Does Not Increase Survival in Melanoma; Cancer Currents blog post featuring Dr. Howard Streicher - Posted: 06/16/2017
ENRICH Forum — Broad Consent for Research on Biospecimens: The Views and Experiences of Actual Donors; Christopher D. Andry, MPhil, PhD (July 26, 2017; Webex) - Posted: 05/18/2017
NCI Announces the Patient-Derived Models Repository (PDMR) as a Resource to the Scientific Community - Posted: 05/12/2017
NCI Announces the NCI ALMANAC: A New Resource for Research on Cancer Drug Combinations; Cancer Currents blog by Drs. Doroshow and Collins - Posted: 05/08/2017
ENRICH Forum — Compensating Research Tissue Donors: Henrietta Lacks and the Ethics of Paying for Biological Specimens; Debra Mathews, PhD, MA (June 8, 2017; Webex) - Posted: 05/04/2017
Schedule of DCTD Staff Presentations at ASCO 2017 (June 2-6, 2017; Chicago, IL) - Posted: 04/28/2017
Dr. Richard Simon Is the Recipient of the 2017 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science
- Posted: 04/07/2017
Advancing the Potential and Promise of Total-Body PET Imaging; Cancer Currents blog by Drs. Jacobs and Sastre (NIBIB) - Posted: 04/03/2017
A Phase 2 Trial in Patients with Desmoid Tumors Shows Clinical Promise - Posted: 03/16/2017
Register for the NCI/DCTD Joint Pathology/Radiology Workshop on "best practices" for liver and lung tumor biopsies (May 22, 2017; Bethesda, MD) - Posted: 03/13/2017
CTEP's Dr. Elad Sharon Interviewed by NPR on Targeted Cancer Therapy
- Posted: 03/10/2017
Schedule of DCTD Staff Presentations at AACR 2017 (April 1-5, 2017; Washington, DC) - Posted: 02/10/2017
The Biometric Research Program Launches New Bioinformatics System: BRB-SeqTools - Posted: 02/03/2017
NCTN/NCORP Data Archive: Expanding Access to Clinical Trial Data. A Cancer Currents blog post by Drs. Jeff Abrams and Warren Kibbe - Posted: 02/03/2017
Validation of a Next Generation Sequencing Assay for NCI-MATCH: Implications for Precision Medicine Clinical Trials - Posted: 01/11/2017
Data Science Bowl Launched to Improve Lung Cancer Screening - Posted: 01/11/2017
New Drug Formulary Will Help Expedite Use of Agents in Clinical Trials