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Effective and safe treatments are needed for medulloblastoma—the most common type of cancerous brain tumor in children—especially for patients whose cancer has spread to the spinal cord. A recent phase I clinical trial led by researchers at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has generated promising…...

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Approximately 15,000 Americans will be diagnosed with glioblastoma this year. Although considered a rare cancer, doctors are seeing an increase in cases of the aggressive and deadly brain cancer that’s notoriously hard to treat. A local organization that’s helping enroll brain cancer patients in clinical trials around the world gives…...

After he was not accepted into the University of Hong Kong, plan B for W.K. Alfred Yung, MD, was to leave his country and immigrate to the United States to attend the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis—a move he considers more exile than choice. Born on April 8, 1948, in…...

Together with the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) and the AIM-HI Accelerator Fund (AIM-HI) we hosted a charitable hybrid combo event on October 30 2021 – our first big project in the United States. While the live event took place at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., virtual participation was…...

Rasio Therapeutics, a company whose cancer drug research technology was developed and applied in part with funding provided over many years by the National Foundation for Cancer Research to University of Maryland, Baltimore, researcher Curt Civin, has raised additional investment funding....

Insights from National Foundation for Cancer Research Chief Medical Officer Brian Leyland-Jones, along with such other authoritative sources as Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Mayo Clinic and the U.S. National Cancer Institute, are featured in this Eat This, Not That! overview of pancreatic cancer warning signs....

5 Questions With…” is a weekly BioBuzz series where interesting people share a little about themselves, their work and maybe something completely unrelated. This week the series features Dr. Sujuan Ba, president and chief executive officer of the National Foundation for Cancer Research....

PHILADELPHIA – The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) announced today that Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD, FACP, FASCO, FAACR, will receive the inaugural AACR Daniel D. Von Hoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and Training in Cancer Research. Von Hoff is being recognized for his groundbreaking accomplishments as…...