Author: Elizabeth Gregerson

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal colorectal cancer.  The procedure was made possible through Northwestern’s new Colorectal Metastasis to Liver Extraction with Auxiliary Transplant and Delayed Resection program, or…

Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute has appointed Firas El Chaer, MD, as chief of leukemia.  He will also serve as medical director of infusion services, according to a March 18 news release from the health system.  Before joining Baptist Health,…

Dartmouth Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center based in Lebanon, N.H., has yet to receive funding from the government agency, despite being told the center was approved for the award in July, according to a March 13…

AdventHealth Daytona Beach's new wellness center does more than offer integrative therapies such as yoga, acupuncture and massage — it provides them to cancer patients for free. 

The American Association for Cancer Research has elected 33 oncology leaders to its 2025 class of Fellows of the AACR Academy.

Using at-home fecal immunochemical tests, NYC Health + Hospitals screened almost 60,000 patients for colorectal cancer in 2024, a 12% increase from the previous year. 

In 2021, Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center began implementing an optional four-day workweek for its nursing leaders. 

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital and Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham have partnered to open a radiation oncology center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 

Danville, Pa.- based Geisinger will build a new, $32 million cancer center in Lewisburg, Pa.

Josh Carpenter, PhD, has been named vice president and chief integration officer at Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, and president of Speros, a Land O' Lakes, Fla.-based research facility and medical campus owned by the cancer center.