Washington, DC – Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) is excited to announce the addition of Dr. Janet Woodcock, Former Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Paul Kim, Principal of Kendall Square Policy Strategies LLC, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Janet Woodcock…
Washington, DC – New findings by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) and collaborators were presented yesterday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), “Agreement Across 10 Artificial Intelligence Models in Assessing HER2 in Breast Cancer Whole Slide Images: Findings from the Friends of Cancer Research Digital PATH Project.” The poster presented the agreement of…
Six organizations representing millions of patients and providers, filed an amicus curiae, or “friend-of-the-court,” brief in the case of American Clinical Laboratory Association et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. The amicus brief supports the FDA’s laboratory developed tests (LDTs) rule that harmonized oversight for diagnostic tests regardless of whether…
Findings by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) and collaborators were published today in JCO Oncology Advances, “An Analysis of 20 Independently Performed Assays to Measure Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) in Ovarian Cancer: Findings from the Friends’ HRD Harmonization Project.” This manuscript examines variability in outputs from HRD assays assessing a common sample set. HRD is a biomarker used to determine eligibility for Poly ADP-ribose Polymerase Inhibitors (PARPi) to treat patients with high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma…
New findings by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) were published recently in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics “Evaluation of real-world tumor response derived from electronic health record data sources: A feasibility analysis in mNSCLC patients treated with chemotherapy.” This salient publication demonstrates the feasibility of aligning disparate real-world (rw) data sources to evaluate rw-response to treatment…
Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) is proud to announce our 2024 Cancer Leadership Award recipients: Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, and U.S. Representative for Kentucky’s 2nd congressional district, the Honorable Brett Guthrie. These two extraordinary leaders will be honored on September 19, 2024, in Washington, DC. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli will…
A new publication by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) was published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, “An evaluation of novel oncology approvals with a PMR/C for assessing data in racial and ethnic populations underrepresented in premarket clinical trials.” This important publication used publicly available data to…
Washington, DC – May 7, 2024 – A new publication by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) was recently published in the journal Diagnostics: “Advancing Evidence Generation for ctDNA: Lessons Learned from A Multi-Assay Study of Baseline ctDNA Levels Across Cancer Types and Stages.” This collaborative publication evaluates circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) levels prior to cancer…
A new publication by Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) was published in Cytotherapy, “Accelerated Development of Genetically Engineered Cellular Therapies: A Framework for Extrapolating Data Across Related Products.” This exciting manuscript examines the current opportunities and challenges with development approaches of genetically engineered cellular therapies to propose solutions to optimize development. The publication outlines a…
Friends of Cancer Research (Friends) is excited to announce the launch of a new research partnership, Digital and Computational Pathology Tool Harmonization (Digital PATH) Project. This project will identify factors that may contribute to variability in biomarker assessment across computational pathology platforms, propose areas for alignment in the field, and provide insights for shaping regulatory…
