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After years of working with the National Cancer Institute, W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, gets the call to run the institute.

In this cohort study, researchers identified 6146 patients from 17 registries of the SEER Program who had been diagnosed with a first primary cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma between 2000 and 2018.

A new analysis found that relapse-free survival is a poor surrogate endpoint for overall survival in adjuvant immunotherapy trials in a variety of cancer types.

However, a post-hoc analysis adds to evidence suggesting that irradiating all metastatic lesions may improve survival in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy.

First study to show obesity-related cancer risk is 1.5-fold higher in people with metabolic aberrations as well as obesity, compared with metabolically healthy and normal weight individuals.