Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope has named Vanessa Almendro Navarro, PhD, as chief commercialization officer. Dr. Almendro Navarro will focus on setting the cancer center’s strategic direction for the commercialization of its intellectual property, data and research results, according to…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
Oklahoma City-based OU Health has become the first health system in Oklahoma to offer fertility preservation for prepubescent boys before cancer treatment. Through testicular tissue cryopreservation, immature tissue can be stored and transported to the University of Pittsburgh for preservation.…
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation to establish the UChicago Medicine Ralph Lauren Center. The UChicago Medicine Ralph Lauren Center will serve patients at Harvey, Ill.-based Ingalls Memorial Hospital…
New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has tapped Whitney Snider, MD, as managing partner of the cancer center’s investment pool, MSK Ventures. MSK Ventures aims to “accelerate investment in and development of breakthrough oncology innovations and inventions,” according…
More than half of head and neck cancer clinical trials ended due to either sponsor-driven strategic decisions or poor recruitment, according to a study published Jan. 2 in JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery. Researchers from Miami-based Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer…
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Out of 11 cancer hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare’s Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had the highest percentage of patients who said they would probably or definitely recommend the hospital, according to CMS data published Nov.…
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has begun construction on a cancer center in Modesto, Calif. The Advanced Cancer Center and Care Complex will cost an estimated $380 million and is part of the health system’s larger multiyear expansion plan in the…
Kentucky, Mississippi and West Virginia had the highest overall cancer incidence and mortality rates in the U.S. between 2018 and 2023, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. New Mexico, Utah and Hawaii had the lowest overall cancer…
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital Cancer Institute has renamed its adolescent and young adult cancer program after receiving a $1 million donation. The Richard and Melanie Gonzmart Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Program is led by medical oncologist Victoria Rizk, MD,…
Investigators from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed — and made public — a free resource to inform potential immune system responses of pancreatic cancer patients after receiving various combinations of vaccines and immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs. The…