New York City-based NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center has appointed two leaders for its newly established Gastrointestinal Cancer Center. Anirban Maitra, MD, and Manuel Hidalgo, MD, will serve as co-directors of the center, according to a Sept. 5 news…
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The 2022 merger of Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health, then dually based in Downers Grove, Ill., and Milwaukee, created one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country in Advocate Health. “We are poised to push…
Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare has appointed Kay Yoon-Flannery, DO, as chief of women’s oncology at the AtlantiCare Cancer Care Institute in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.. She will lead alignment of breast, gynecologic and genetic cancer services across the system, according…
University Hospitals’ Seidman Cancer Center has received a $3.5 million gift to support efforts to triple capacity for clinical trials within the next five years. The gift comes from Kathy Coleman, who has donated more than $14 million to the…
Despite breakthroughs in drug therapies and diagnostic technologies, prostate cancer incidence in the U.S. has increased 3.0% per year. At the same time, prostate cancer mortality is declining at a slower rate than the previous two decades. As chief clinical…
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A urine-based biomarker panel detected prostate cancer in 91% of specimens with a diagnostic accuracy of 78.6% to 85.7%, according to a study published Sept. 2 in eBioMedicine. Led by a team from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and…
Columbus-based Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has launched a fully remote clinical trial for pancreatic cancer patients across the U.S. Led by Sameek Roychowdhury, MD, PhD, an oncologist at…
Following almost a decade of decline, prostate cancer incidence in the U.S. increased 3.0% per year between 2014 through 2021, according to a report published Sept. 2 in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Incidence of advanced-stage prostate cancer at…
Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health is in the midst of executing a $181 million expansion plan. An integral part of which is integrating its newly launched Endeavor Health Cancer Institute across the nine-hospital system. At the helm of this integration are…
A former researcher at Houston-based University Texas of MD Anderson has been charged with theft of trade secrets and tampering with a government record, according to an Aug. 25 report from the Houston Chronicle. The researcher, Yunhai Li, PhD, was…