Becker's Oncology

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center is set to open a new research center on its innovation campus in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., CBS affiliate WTSP reported Oct. 8.  The new 250,000-square-foot Moffitt Discovery and Innovation Center, located on the system’s…

LSU Health New Orleans is opening its medical school’s first academic department of radiation oncology and has named radiation oncologist and physician-scientist Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD, chair. The new department will be a major expansion of the school’s academic cancer…

A vaccine developed at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center extended median survival by four months among glioblastoma patients 65 and younger. Roswell Park researchers and MimiVax, a biotech company spun out of the cancer center, tested the SurVaxM…

Adults with disabilities had lower breast and cervical cancer screening rates than adults without disabilities, according to a study published Sept. 10 in Cancer. Researchers from Atlanta-based American Cancer Society analyzed 2021 and 2023 National Health Interview Survey data to…

Cancer patients who asymptomatically carried Clostridioides difficile may drive the majority of new cases within inpatient cancer units, according to a study published Oct. 1 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Researchers from Raleigh-based North Carolina State University and St.…