Clearwater, Fla.-based BayCare Health System will develop a solid organ transplant program at Tampa-based St. Joseph’s Hospital in partnership with Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine. BayCare expects to begin performing kidney transplants in 2027, according to a March 31 news release from…
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
Jacksonville, Fla.-based Nemours Children’s Health has appointed David Dickens, MD, as division chief of hematology/oncology for Nemours Children’s Hospital Florida. Dr. Dickens previously served as clinical director of pediatric oncology services and director of the pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship program at…
An AI-powered pathology tool called PhenopyCell can accurately predict whether patients with small cell lung cancer will respond to platinum-based chemotherapy, according to a study published March 17 in npj Precision Oncology. Researchers evaluated the tool on standard pathology slides…
Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Froedtert ThedaCare Health and Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin have opened Wisconsin’s first proton therapy facility. The facility is located at the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center on the Froedtert Hospital campus…
A molecular test designed by researchers at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine detected nearly twice as many bile duct cancers as standard pathology, according to a study published March 27 in Gastroenterology.…
Advertisement
Complex prompting may yield more successful results when using AI to analyze physician interviews with pediatric cancer survivors, according to a study published March 25 in Communications Medicine. For the study, researchers from Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital…
As clinical trial decentralization gains traction, there is one bottleneck limiting equitable access: inconsistent patient identification. Becker’s spoke to 14 oncology industry leaders about which strategies are most critical to expanding access — and where gaps remain. The contributors to…
Baltimore-based University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center will launch a cancer researcher training program through a $3 million National Cancer Institute grant. The Advancing Oncologic Research Communities in Health Equity program will support early-career faculty and…
Between 1990 and 2021, the global incidence of early-onset cancers grew while mortality fell, according to a study published Feb. 4 in JCO Global Oncology. Researchers from academic institutions around the world analyzed data from the 2021 Global Burden of…
Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center has partnered with InterAct Therapeutics to develop and commercialize a gene therapy designed to treat breast cancer liver metastasis. The partnership builds on the research of Isaac Chan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine…