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The Cancer Letter

The Cancer Letter

The Cancer Letter, an independent weekly news publication, has been the leading source for information on the issues that shape oncology since 1973. With a dedicated audience of oncology’s leaders, The Cancer Letter stays on top of breaking news and advances in oncology, providing authoritative, award-winning coverage of the development of cancer therapies, drug regulation, legislation, cancer research funding, health care finance, and public health. This weekly podcast features interviews,

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00:21:59

In the Headlines: What’s in Trump’s draft budget?

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/04/23

A confidential Trump administration budget document obtained by The Cancer Letter called for a 40% budget cut to NIH and a restructuring of the 27 existing NIH institutes and centers down to just eight. But what else is in it?In this week’s episode, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about other ways the 64-page budget document may impact cancer research. It seems that the cut to FDA was very small, Paul said. However, the budget

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00:46:10

The Directors: Louis Weiner and Taofeek Owonikoko on...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/04/18

“We are resolute. We are committed to continuing to move the work forward,” said Louis M. Weiner, director of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Taofeek Kunle Owonikoko, executive director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, recalled recent conversations with two junior faculty members. “I had to reassure them, ‘Yes, we’re not reneging on our commitment,’” Owonikoko said. “It’s a challenging phase that we’re all going

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00:17:35

In The Headlines: Oncofertility care falls through...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/04/16

Up to 80% of adolescents and young adults with cancer are affected by reduced fertility after treatment—but only 50% received oncofertility counseling and preservation options prior to beginning treatment.In this episode of In the Headlines, Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor of The Cancer Letter, and Claire Marie Porter, reporter, talk about how oncofertility, now a standard of care, is often overlooked. Claire’s story highlights the experiences of two young adult survivors with the same

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00:19:18

In The Headlines: Private funding can’t replace...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/04/09

In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge. In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about the differences between private and federal research questions, and their interviews about

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00:23:47

In The Headlines: HHS shakeup threatens a legacy of...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/04/02

“For the last 50 years every major medical breakthrough can be traced back to investments in the NIH, which houses the National Cancer Institute (NCI),” said Wayne A. I. Frederick, interim chief executive officer of American Cancer Society and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.In this episode of In the Headlines, Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor of The Cancer Letter, and Claire Marie Porter, reporter, talk about the sweeping changes at HHS they reported on for last week’s story:

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00:19:18

In The Headlines: How tariffs could cause direct harm...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/03/26

In this episode of the Cancer Letter Podcast, all three of The Cancer Letter’s reporters come together to talk about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cancer care.Claire Marie Porter, reporter with The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor and reporter, and Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher, discussed last week’s story, “Trump’s tariffs will likely affect cancer drugs and devices—and may deepen drug shortages.”The effects are wide-ranging and pretty uncertain,

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00:22:26

In the Headlines: Could “flooding the zone” drown NIH...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/03/19

With a growing backlog at NIH and Columbia University’s grants getting canceled over alleged antisemitism, where does that leave NCI-designated cancer centers?Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Claire Marie Porter, reporter, discuss this and more on the latest episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast.Stories mentioned in this podcast include:The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural AmericaBacklog of work grows at NIH as staff members are

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00:55:25

The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/03/14

In March 2025, the dawn of the Trump era, what's keeping cancer center directors up at night? What's it like to be a director of a cancer center now?In the second installment of The Directors, a series on The Cancer Letter Podcast, we asked Raymond DuBois, director of the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, South Carolina, and Roy Jensen, director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, what being a cancer center director is like right now.This episode features one discussant: Otis Brawley,

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00:18:41

In the Headlines: What are Jay Bhattacharya’s plans...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/03/12

President Trump’s nominee for NIH director extolled the importance of transparency—just days after HHS rescinded a Nixon-era policy intended to enhance it. Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss Jayanta Bhattacharya’s stance on the mass firings sweeping through HHS, Trump’s proposed cap on indirect costs, and more this week on The Cancer Letter Podcast.During his confirmation hearing before the members of the Health, Education, Labor,

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00:16:49

In The Headlines: When DOGE fires you from your dream...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/03/05

In this episode of In the Headlines, Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor of the The Cancer Letter, and Claire Marie Porter, reporter, discuss Claire’s interview with an NCI employee who was fired just days after returning from parental leave.The story provides a personal perspective from one HHS employee who was fired as part of Department of Government Efficiency’s mass termination of probationary employees.To protect the employee’s identity, The Cancer Letter uses gender-neutral pronouns, the

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00:17:46

In The Headlines: What’s up with the U.S. cancer...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/26

In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, talk about controversial data cited in Trump’s “Make American Healthy Again” executive order that claims that the U.S. has the highest age-standardized incidence rate of cancer globally. But where did that data come from?In a story in the most recent issue of The Cancer Letter, cancer epidemiologists weighed in on the origin of the questionable data: Trump executive order to

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00:24:13

In The Headlines: Kimryn Rathmell on loss and caring...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/19

In this episode of In the Headlines, former NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell speaks with Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, about the HHS layoffs and their potential impact on mental health. These layoffs—and the broader uncertainty introduced by the current administration’s actions—are a form of trauma, Rathmell says. In Rathmell’s latest column, “Preparing to take care of each other in ways we never imagined,” she tells a deeply personal story about

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00:45:53

20 Years of EGFR

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/14

In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, we convene a special panel of people who have played a role in the discovery of the EGFR mutation in lung cancer.The panel is moderated by Suresh S. Ramalingam, a lung cancer expert, executive director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and editor-in-chief of the journal Cancer. Other members of the panel include:Katerina Politi, PhD, Joseph A. and Lucille K. Madri Professor of Pathology, Scientific director, Center for Thoracic Cancers,

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00:58:05

The Directors: Rob Winn and John Carpten on the...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/14

Is the Community Outreach and Engagement mandate the next item on the chopping block as the Trump administration makes its mark on science policy? What about health disparities research?“If we got rid of Outreach and Engagement, I think it would be almost like losing a major foundational aspect of a cancer center,” Robert A. Winn, the director at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, said on The Cancer Letter’s new podcast. “And I think it would make us vulnerable, particularly in

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00:22:12

In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect...

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/14

In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher ofThe Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss the “doomsday scenario” facing academic cancer centers that would follow the success of President Trump’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions. The topic of indirect costs has been “something you don't talk about in polite company,” Paul said, and while a drastic cut would gut academic research, oncology leaders say that conversation about

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00:01:54

Welcome To The Cancer Letter Podcast

The Cancer Letter ·

2025/02/12

Welcome to The Cancer Letter Podcast—a weekly podcast featuring interviews, discussions, and more to dig deep into the issues that shape oncology.

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