Patients turn to National Cancer Institute (NCI) –designated comprehensive cancer centers because of perceived better quality and more timely access to care. However, recent studies have found that ...

Designation from the National Cancer Institute is a prestigious marker of research excellence. The status was created in 1971 as part of a national strategy to find better treatments for cancer.

Researchers at the University of Michigan are finding that many patients may be encountering significant barriers to cancer care, even from their first phone call to a clinic. Patients attempting to ...

Oncologist Anthony Letai, M.D., Ph.D., has been sworn in as the new leader of the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI), the agency announced Sept. 29. Letai replaces Douglas ...