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WCOE: Traveling for Treatment, Bipartisan Cancer Policy, Some Tumors Evade Targeted Therapy, Treatment vs Hype, Clinical Trials Info

March 18, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Clinical Trials NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE)
Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention.

From @cure_magazine On the Road to Recovery: Traveling for #Cancer Treatment https://t.co/TFFijL2dpT #survivorship

— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) March 9, 2016

Via @RollCall: #Cancer Experiences Could Help Forge Bipartisan Policy https://t.co/aBxTEO1UiX

— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) March 15, 2016

Researchers from @MIT uncover a mechanism that allows cancer cells to evade targeted therapies. https://t.co/Hm9LbrOfNQ

— NCI Media Relations (@NCIMedia) March 16, 2016

Watch the Hype: Cancer Treatment Still Has Far to Go https://t.co/lCqEtiaZq1

— WSJ Health News (@WSJhealth) March 17, 2016

Clinical trials help us make progress against cancer. This video explains how they work: https://t.co/7tF0aIBZZg pic.twitter.com/cPkPaM0MuD

— National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) March 18, 2016

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