Last Updated: 10/10/2019
2019 News
- Posted: 10/10/2019
NCI Convenes 2019 Annual Principal Investigators Meeting of the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer - Posted: 10/10/2019
For Children with Neuroblastoma, Trial Results Highlight Continued Evolution of Treatment; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Nita Seibel, MD - Posted: 09/26/2019
DCTD’s Translational Research Program Announces Fiscal Year 2019 SPORE Grantees - Posted: 09/23/2019
NCI Announces Support for Research in Cell-based Immunotherapies of Human Cancer - Posted: 09/23/2019
Study Quantifies Impact of NCI-sponsored Trials on Clinical Cancer Care; NCI Press Release - Posted: 09/23/2019
FDA Approves Entrectinib Based on Tumor Genetics Rather Than Cancer Type; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Nita Seibel, MD - Posted: 09/11/2019
NCI Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program Supports Collaborative Project to Develop Inhibitors of p97 ATPase, a Novel Cancer Therapeutic Target - Posted: 09/05/2019
Pembrolizumab Approved for Some Patients with Advanced Esophageal Cancer; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Carmen Allegra, MD - Posted: 09/05/2019
Study Tests Immunotherapy in People with Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Elad Sharon, MD, MPH - Posted: 07/29/2019
DCTD Convenes 2019 Lung Cancer Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) Workshop (June 13-14, 2019) - Posted: 07/29/2019
Laser-Based Device Detects and Kills Melanoma Cells in the Blood, Study Finds; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Miguel Ossandon, PhD - Posted: 07/29/2019
Can Some Women Treated for Endometrial Cancer Forgo Radiation after Surgery? Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Elise Kohn, MD - Posted: 07/15/2019
Helping Dogs - and Humans - with Cancer: NCI's Comparative Oncology Studies; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Toby Hecht, PhD and Connie Sommers, PhD - Posted: 06/21/2019
The Cancer Imaging Program’s Quantitative Imaging Network Annual Meeting (May 21-22, 2019) - Posted: 06/21/2019
NIH Convenes Workshop on Imaging Inflammation and Its Resolution in Health and Disease (June 10-11, 2019) - Posted: 05/23/2019
NCI Convenes Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Radiation Oncology (April 4-5, 2019) - Posted: 05/22/2019
Schedule of DCTD Staff Presentations at ASCO 2019 (May 31-June 4, 2019) - Posted: 05/22/2019
NCI’s Patient-Derived Models Repository Announces Its First Molecularly Characterized Patient/PDX-derived Organoid Cultures - Posted: 05/22/2019
Pediatric MATCH Study Finds More Targetable Genetic Changes than Expected; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Nita Seibel, MD - Posted: 05/22/2019
New Drugs, New Side Effects: Complications of Cancer Immunotherapy; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Elad Sharon, MD, MPH - Posted: 05/22/2019
Some Children with Liver Cancer May Need Less Chemotherapy, Study Suggests; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Nita Seibel, MD - Posted: 05/07/2019
A New NCI-NRG Precision Medicine Clinical Trial Treats Patients with ALK-positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - Posted: 04/15/2019
NCI Announces New Tissue Procurement Study to Inform Cancer Drug Resistance - Posted: 03/27/2019
NCI-Funded Canine Immunotherapy Trials Network Treats Pet Dogs to Study Cancers Common to Humans - Posted: 03/27/2019
Nature’s Bounty: Revitalizing the Discovery of New Cancer Drugs from Natural Products; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Barry O’Keefe, PhD - Posted: 03/11/2019
Schedule of DCTD Staff Presentations at AACR 2019 (March 29-April 3, 2019) - Posted: 03/11/2019
Making Cancer Clinical Trials Available to More Patients; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Percy Ivy, MD, Andrea Denicoff, RN, MS, Grace Mishkin, MPH, and Fernanda Arnaldez, MD - Posted: 03/01/2019
DCTD Programs and Initiatives Book (2013-2017) - Posted: 03/01/2019
Treatment for Children with Leukemia Also Effective for Adolescents, Young Adults; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Nita Seibel, MD - Posted: 03/01/2019
HTAN: Mapping Tumors across Space and Time Using Cutting-Edge Technologies; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Tracy Lively, PhD - Posted: 01/29/2019
Lung-MAP Trial Eligibility Expanded to Include Patients with All Non-small Cell Lung Cancers - Posted: 01/10/2019
Immunotherapy Effective in Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma; Cancer Currents Blog Featuring Alice Chen, MD and Geraldine O’Sullivan Coyne, MD, PhD