Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health will expand its radiation oncology program with the addition of proton therapy. The health system will install the proton therapy system at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and integrate the treatment into existing oncology services,…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
On July 1, members of Humana’s Medicare Advantage PPO and HMO plans will lose coverage for care received at Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center. Humana terminated the coverage agreement for business reasons unrelated to care quality, according to a statement…
Johnson & Johnson will build a $1 billion cell therapy manufacturing facility in Montgomery County, Pa. The project will support more than 4,000 jobs during construction and more than 500 biomanufacturing jobs once the facility is fully operational, according to…
A team at Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute has become the first in the world to treat a patient with CD19-positive mixed phenotype acute leukemia with a subcutaneous formulation delivery for blinatumomab. The patient received the first dose Jan. 17…
University of Kansas Health System and University of Kansas Medical Center, both based in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo.-based Children’s Mercy have joined forces to establish a fully integrated theranostics platform for adult and pediatric patients. The health…
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Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has installed the first magnetic nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia machine in the U.S. The installation was completed in November and the first patient was treated with the machine as part of a clinical trial in December, according to…
Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center will build an outpatient center in Lakeland, Fla., marking the first facility of Moffitt’s future Central Florida campus. The outpatient center was made possible through a $10 million gift from Wesley and Ashley Bell Barnett,…
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched an online dashboard that consolidates state- and county-level cancer data such as incidence, mortality and screening trends. The North Carolina Cancer Health Assets and Needs Assessment dashboard is publicly available…
Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University Health have tapped James Ferriss, MD, as system chief of gynecologic oncology. Dr. Ferriss will serve as an associate professor of gynecologic oncology and see patients at Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase…
Among prostatectomy patients, same-day discharge was associated with nearly double the odds of readmission within 30 days, according to a study published Feb. 15 in CancerMed. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both based in Boston,…