In the News

Gary Mervis, founder of Cancer Mission 2020 and Camp Good Days and Special Times attended the Moonshot Cancer Summit, on June 29, 2016, hosted at the University of Rochester's Wilmot Cancer Institute.

Gary Mervis, founder of Cancer Mission 2020 and Camp Good Days and Special Times, presented Representatives Tom Reed and Louise Slaughter with a petition of over 25,000 signatures.

The Cancer Services Program of Monroe County, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center's Center for Community Health, is on a mission in March to make the community healthier.

Late last month, a new drug to treat the most prevalent form of skin cancer was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

I HAVE a very rare and aggressive type of skin cancer — Merkel cell carcinoma — for which there is no approved cure, and I'm participating in a clinical trial to deal with it. If successful, the trial will show that the drug I'm being given at least manages what is now an often fatal disease.

A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Reed was promoted Friday as part of a concerted effort to eradicate all forms of cancer by the end of this decade.

Two Rochester-area representatives have reintroduced federal legislation that would have cancer researchers making timely reports on results — good or bad — of clinical trials.