Author: Elizabeth Gregerson

A group of leaders from New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford (Calif.) University are calling for academic medical centers to rethink their well-established model of drug discovery and development to stay competitive…

The FDA has launched its first two real-time clinical trials in partnership with Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania, AstraZeneca, Amgen and Paradigm Health. The real-time clinical trial model allows the FDA to review…

From specialty chiefs to department chairs, here are 12 health systems seeking leaders for oncology services:

The American Surgical Association has named B. Mark Evers, MD, director of Lexington-based University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, as president-elect.  Dr. Evers will serve as the society’s president-elect for one year before assuming the presidency in 2027, according to…

Miami Beach, Fla.-based Mount Sinai Medical Center has opened the Irma and Norman Braman Comprehensive Cancer Center. The center more than triples the medical center’s cancer care capacity and will open to patients May 4, according to an April 27…

Evansville, Ind.-based Deaconess Health System will build a new cancer center, expected to open in 2028. The Cinelli Cancer Center will cost more than $150 million, according to an April 27 news release shared with Becker’s. The health system has…

Health system leaders weighing oncology research investments may be overlooking a core access issue: where patients can actually receive cutting-edge care.  In a recent episode of the “Becker’s Healthcare Podcast,” Marwan Fakih, MD, division chief of GI medical oncology at…

Seth Karp, MD, system surgeon-in-chief and chair of the section of surgical sciences for Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt Health, will step down Oct. 15 to join Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as surgeon-in-chief.  Dr. Karp will also serve as chair of the…

Two potential pancreatic cancer treatments are gaining recognition within the oncology community, according to reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post published April 21 and April 22, respectively.  One treatment is a pill called darxonrasib. Developed by…

Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital has opened a 14-bed, all-private oncology unit as part of Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health’s Smilow Cancer Hospital expansion. The inpatient oncology suite integrates clinical capabilities with an environment intentionally designed around the patient and family experience,…