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The Cancer Letter The Cancer Letter is an award-winning weekly newsletter covering cancer research funding, legislation Congress and the pharmaceutical industry.

The Cancer Letter, a weekly online publication, is the leading source of information on development of cancer therapies, cancer research funding and health care finance, legislation and policy. The Cancer Letter reaches the key opinion leaders in academic oncology and in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Our audience includes faculty and staff members at cancer centers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, government agencies, and Wall Street professionals. Based in Washington, D.C., The Cancer Letter provides in-depth coverage of events at cancer centers, the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Food & Drug Administration, U.S. Over the past four decades, The Cancer Letter has earned acclaim and numerous journalism awards for its investigative coverage of issues that shape oncology. Our work has been profiled and cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, 60 Minutes, 20/20, CNN, NPR, Science, Nature and many other news outlets. Our coverage has triggered investigations by Congressional committees, the Institute of Medicine, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Department of Justice. The Cancer Letter was founded in 1973 by journalist Jerry D. Boyd, two years after Congress passed the National Cancer Act of 1971. Boyd retired in 1990, turning over the company to his daughter Kirsten Boyd Goldberg, who served as editor and publisher for the next 20 years. Paul Goldberg became publisher in January 2011.

"The end of 'more money, more people, more trials'. Cancer centers are being asked to grow their portfolios on flat budg...
09/19/2026

"The end of 'more money, more people, more trials'. Cancer centers are being asked to grow their portfolios on flat budgets. Headcount is the wrong answer," writes Jeff Sorenson, CEO and co-founder of Yunu

Congress settled the FY26 question in February, with NCI receiving $7.352 billion, an increase of $128 million over the

Kennedy overhauls “too woke” USPSTF with the appointment of eight members. Critics say new members will politicize, comm...
09/19/2026

Kennedy overhauls “too woke” USPSTF with the appointment of eight members. Critics say new members will politicize, commercialize the panel.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has announced the addition of eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in w...

Letai takes a swipe at “ill-informed commentators,” as he lays out his scientific vision for NCI. “To my knowledge, 100%...
09/19/2026

Letai takes a swipe at “ill-informed commentators,” as he lays out his scientific vision for NCI. “To my knowledge, 100% of grants that clear my desk get funded”.

As of the end of August, NCI has selected 1,891 competing awards for funding this fiscal year, all of which will be funded by the year’s end, NCI Director Anthony G. Letai said to the National Cancer Advisory Board. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institut...

25 years after 9/11, a smoking cessation program may have curbed lung cancer risk for first responders at Ground Zero.“W...
09/16/2026

25 years after 9/11, a smoking cessation program may have curbed lung cancer risk for first responders at Ground Zero.
“We seem to have a risk of exposure that needed that extra boost of the cigarette to cause the cancer.”

Twenty-five years ago, the attack on the World Trade Center engulfed Ground Zero in a shroud of smoke, leaving Lower Manhattan covered in toxic dust for months.  Surely, the massive, sustained exposure to smoke and dust would cause an uptick in lung cancer, particularly among first responders.  .....

FDA authorizes second e-cigarette with age-gating features
09/15/2026

FDA authorizes second e-cigarette with age-gating features

FDA cleared the JUUL2 e-cigarette in to***co and menthol flavors. This is the second va**ng device the agency has author

Russian general tied to bombing Kyiv children’s hospital shot in apparent retribution hit
09/15/2026

Russian general tied to bombing Kyiv children’s hospital shot in apparent retribution hit

Russian general who was accused by Ukraine’s security services of carrying out a bombing of a pediatric cancer hospital

Cancer leaders play “musical chairs” as executive jobs fill at top cancer centers. Lee replaces Pisters at UT MD Anderso...
09/14/2026

Cancer leaders play “musical chairs” as executive jobs fill at top cancer centers. Lee replaces Pisters at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Tuveson moves to Duke Cancer Institute, and Mitchell is named director at UF Health.

Change swept through executive offices at cancer centers in recent weeks, shifting top leadership at the University of T

Pentagon temporarily rescinds guidance on testosterone testing for U.S. military
09/13/2026

Pentagon temporarily rescinds guidance on testosterone testing for U.S. military

The Pentagon has temporarily rescinded a recently published guidance that would require all military personnel aged 30 a

mRNA vaccine for melanoma is hailed as a turning point in medicine.The data from Moderna and Merck’s trial have yet to b...
09/12/2026

mRNA vaccine for melanoma is hailed as a turning point in medicine.
The data from Moderna and Merck’s trial have yet to be presented

For years, personalized cancer vaccines have promised to make a radical idea possible—a treatment designed not just for

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