The Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC) joined the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Lung Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Cancer Support Community, and a number of other oncology clinical, professional, and patient advocacy organizations in a June 6, letter of support for S. 946, the Henrietta Lacks Enhancing Cancer Research Act of 2019.
The legislation is aimed at eliminating barriers in patient access to cancer clinical trials, with a special emphasis on decreasing disparities in cancer clinical trials.
Read the letter.
Understanding both the benefits to be had from offering BsAb therapy to its community and the scope of this undertaking, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center took a novel approach with its APP-led BsAb step-up dosing clinic, which won the program a 2026 ACCC Innovator Award.
