Oncology

Here are eight moves from leading cancer centers across the nation that Becker's has covered since July 22: 

A researcher at the University of Hawai'i Cancer Center received a $2.8 million grant to develop a school- and culturally-based e-cigarette prevention intervention program for rural youths in the state.

New York Cancer & Blood Specialists and Brooklyn Hospital Center opened their Brooklyn Cancer Center on Aug. 25.

Advocate Radiation Oncology opened a new cancer center in West Palm Beach, Fla., the Town-Crier reported Aug. 25.

Researchers at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a deep learning algorithm that can identify and outline a non-small cell lung cancer tumor on a CT scan within seconds, Science Daily reported Aug. 24.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System is expanding its cancer care to rural areas of Southwest Louisiana, 7KPLC reported Aug. 23.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reopened an expanded care center Aug. 22 for patients with head and neck cancers, The Buffalo News reported Aug. 23.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy uses a patients' T-cells to fight cancer. Although more than half of recipients go into remission, the treatment costs $375,000 to $475,000, NBC News reported.

Six oncologists have joined new practices or received new appointments since Aug. 1.

Naples, Fla.-based radiation oncologist Chaundre Cross, MD, has been presumed lost at sea after a 100-hour search, NBC News reported Aug. 16.