Becker's Oncology

Ascension Sacred Heart, which operates hospitals in Florida’s Pensacola, Panama City and Destin regions, has tapped Nikki Ireland as vice president of oncology. Ms. Ireland previously served as oncology director at Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s Memorial Health University Medical Center…

University of Chicago Medicine has completed construction on the AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a seven-story, 575,000-square-foot facility on its Hyde Park campus. The pavilion will be Illinois’ first freestanding facility solely dedicated to cancer care, according to a Sept. 24…

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System plans to open an outpatient cancer center in Venice, Fla.  Preliminary site work has begun, with construction on the facility expected to be completed in 2028, according to a Sept. 24 news release from…

Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network has tapped Matthew Holtzman, MD, as chief surgical officer for its Western region. The system’s western region includes AHN Beaver Hospital and AHN Sewickley Hospital, according to a Sept. 23 Allegheny Health Network news release. Dr.…

UC San Diego Health has become the first in the country to offer radiation therapy for the treatment of skin cancer through a wearable device.  The device — called CivaDerm — operates like a bandage and delivers a prescribed radiation…