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Roy S. Herbst sat down with Paul Goldberg and shared stories about meeting Edward Chu on a sailboat in Rhode Island, exploring Athens, Greece while they were both in town for a meeting, and the eulogies he heard at Chu’s funeral.

https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20251203-edward-chu/
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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@ascocancer.bsky.social's GI Cancers Symposium "combines great scientific talks with accessibility to experts, where academics and community physicians can meet and collaborate without barriers," says Mary Feng, program committee chair
https://cancerletter.com/sponsored-article/20251121_6/
Mary Feng
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Meeting the moment: @ascocancer.bsky.social GI Cancers Symposium delivers insights and collaboration
https://cancerletter.com/sponsored-article/20251121_6/
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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On this week’s episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Cliff Hudis spoke with The Cancer Letter about his guest editorial, “ASCO and Google Cloud set forth a vision for using AI to modernize health care and advance oncology.”
https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20251022-cliffordhudis/
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this week’s episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast features three oncology leaders whose research focuses on identifying and solving health disparities specifically in the Latinx community.

https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20251015-hispanic-heritage-month/
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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On this week’s episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Sara Willa Ernst spoke with Jacquelyn Cobb, and Laurie McGinley, a former health and science editor at The Washington Post who is now on the board of Patient Action for Cancer Research.
https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20251008-LaurieMcGinley/
October 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Ci4CC’s symposium will spotlight how precision oncology is transforming cancer care—from real-time multi-omics integration and biomarker-driven therapies to adaptive clinical trials and predictive modeling, writes Stephen D. Nimer
https://cancerletter.com/sponsored-article/20250926_4/
Stephen D. Nimer
September 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Ci4CC’s 24th Symposium & Workshop set to focus on precision oncology powered by data intelligence
Guest editorial by symposium chair, Stephen D. Nimer
https://cancerletter.com/sponsored-article/20250926_4/
Stephen D. Nimer
September 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Ousted CDC director Susan Monarez testifies before Senate HELP Committee
https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20250919_6a/
Susan Monarez
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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NCI is “really, really sturdy” and won’t break, former directors Ned Sharpless and Kim Rathmell say at @unclineberger.bsky.social symposium
https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20250919_1/
Rathmell and Sharpless
September 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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FDA advances rare disease drug development with new evidence principles
https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20250912_8d/
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Vinay Prasad regains role as FDA chief medical and scientific officer
https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20250912_8c/
Vinay Prasad
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Trump administration releases MAHA report on children’s health
https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20250912_8b/
September 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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After stormy Senate hearing, Trump offers tepid support for RFK Jr. while Kennedy family members call for his ouster
https://cancerletter.com/cancer-policy/20250912_8a/
September 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Rainer Storb (@fredhutch.bsky.social): Six decades of bone marrow transplant breakthroughs. “His CV has more pages than almost any of you have papers.”
https://cancerletter.com/in-the-archives/20250905_8/
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Paul Thurman: "In just a few years, ICE and border enforcement will receive roughly the same funding as the government has allocated to cancer research over the past 54 years, combined."
https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250905_5/
September 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Lowy: “Are there areas that we say are important to us that we are underfunding to an even greater degree than we are underfunding all areas? Because from my perspective, we underfund everything. So, those are the really difficult questions.”
https://cancerletter.com/nci-director-report/20250905_3/
Douglas R. Lowy
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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A Senate hearing erupted into a political firestorm as senators jumped at their first opportunity to confront HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the chaos engulfing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://cancerletter.com/capitol-hill/20250905_4/
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Senate hearing.
September 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The House is on track to join the Senate in rejecting the Trump administration’s budget proposal that would cut NIH by $18 billion.
https://cancerletter.com/capitol-hill/20250905_2/
September 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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At the Sept. 4 NCAB meeting, NCI Principal Deputy Director Douglas R. Lowy provided an overview of how NCI is weathering the maelstrom of executive orders, policy changes, and funding uncertainties.
https://cancerletter.com/nci-director-report/20250905_3/
Douglas R. Lowy
September 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"The current administration has chosen to pour unprecedented resources into detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants while simultaneously starving the fight against a disease that affects virtually every family in America." - Paul Thurman
https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250905_5/
September 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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@huntsmancancer.bsky.social's Mary Beckerle and Cornelia Ulrich appeared on The Cancer Letter Podcast. ‪@parkerici.bsky.social‬'s Karen Knudsen appears on this episode as a discussant.
https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20250808_1/
August 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Andrea Werblin Reid (@awerblinreidpoetry.bsky.social‬) died of ovarian cancer in 2022. Her third collection of poetry, “To See Yourself As You Vanish” will be published three years after her death.
https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250808_2/
"For most of her illness, Andi wasn’t writing. When it became clearer her time was limited, it was like a dam had burst and she was able to write again and a lot of it came in a flood." - Angus (Gus) Reid RE-TREATING, by Andrea Werblin Reid. in your mind it feels like this: you walk into a hospital and / a bridge explodes. a face flinches from a hand. a man walks out of a bottle. / somewhere else birds call out in a sound so grave and divine, it divides / sunset, which was otherwise busy blazing across the wide neckline of the sky.
August 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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When public service ends abruptly, do books provide solace? An escape? Perspective?
Former NIH and FDA employees tell us what they are reading in 2025
https://cancerletter.com/book-review/20250808_4/
August 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Lou Weiner: Poetry and art help us imagine my mother’s world as a hidden child of the Holocaust
Guest editorial by ‪@georgetownlombardi.bsky.social‬'s Louis M. Weiner, with art by Harriet Weiner.
https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20250808_3/
August 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM