Last Updated: 06/05/2018
2018 News
- Posted: 06/12/2018
DCTD's Cancer Imaging Program Convenes 10th Annual Meeting of the Quantitative Imaging Network; May 17-18, 2018 - Posted: 06/05/2018
NCI-MATCH Precision Medicine Clinical Trial Releases New Findings, Strengthens Path Forward for Targeted Cancer Therapies (NCI Press Release) - Posted: 06/05/2018
TAILORx Trial Finds Most Women with Early Breast Cancer Do Not Benefit from Chemotherapy (NCI Press Release) - Posted: 05/30/2018
Dabrafenib-Trametinib Combination Approved for Melanoma, Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Larissa Korde - Posted: 05/30/2018
Some Children with Wilms Tumor Can Receive Less Therapy, Study Suggests; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Nita Seibel - Posted: 05/21/2018
Schedule of DCTD Presentations at ASCO 2018 (June 1-5, 2018; Chicago, IL) - Posted: 05/17/2018
NIH Convenes Workshop on Cancer, Autoimmunity and Immunology; March 22-23, 2018 - Posted: 05/14/2018
Workshop on Dosimetry of Systemic Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (TRT); April 19-20, 2018 - Posted: 05/07/2018
Rucaparib Approved as Maintenance Treatment for Some Recurrent Ovarian Cancers; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Elise Kohn - Posted: 05/07/2018
Innovation and Biomarkers in Cancer Drug Development Meeting (November 29-30, 2018; Brussels, Belgium) - Posted: 04/24/2018
Workshop on Issues in Post-Treatment Surveillance; March 26-27 - Posted: 04/24/2018
NCI Expands Repository of Cancer Research Models: A Conversation with Drs. Doroshow and Evrard; Cancer Currents Blog Post - Posted: 04/03/2018
NCI Launches New Resource for Specimens and Data from Cancer Clinical Trials; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Jeff Abrams and Grace Mishkin - Posted: 03/29/2018
NIH-funded Study Shows Sorafenib Improves Progression-free Survival for Patients with Rare Sarcomas (NCI Press Release) - Posted: 03/20/2018
Schedule of DCTD Staff Presentations at AACR 2018 (April 14-18, 2018; Chicago, IL) - Posted: 03/05/2018
NCI’s Patient-Derived Models Repository Announces New Models Available to the Scientific Community - Posted: 03/05/2018
Can Oxygen “Microbubbles” Make Radiation Therapy More Effective?; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Eric Bernhard - Posted: 03/05/2018
For Rare Melanoma, Checkpoint Inhibitors May Hold Substantial Promise; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Elad Sharon - Posted: 02/13/2018
Olaparib Approved for Treating Some Breast Cancers with BRCA Gene Mutations; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Elise Kohn - Posted: 02/13/2018
Study Identifies Potential Cause of Hearing Loss from Cisplatin; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Percy Ivy - Posted: 01/24/2018
Nilotinib Can Be Discontinued in Some Patients with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia; Cancer Currents Blog Post Featuring Dr. Rich Little - Posted: 01/16/2018
New Funding Opportunity Announcement: PAR-18-560: National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (R01 Clinical Trials Required)