Oncology

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center named Eileen Danaher Hacker, PhD, the chair of its nursing department, it said in an email to Becker's April 15. 

Ochsner Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, La., is planning on continuing its $10 million expansion, it said April 13. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed or expanded since April 1, starting with the most recent:

Penn Medicine has appointed Robert Vonderheide, MD, to a second five-year term as director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit recently opened the Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Toledo Clinic Cancer Center in Maumee, Ohio, it said in an email to Becker's April 12.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare on April 12 said they have received approval to build the state's first proton beam therapy center. 

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute named Ian Matthew-Clayton vice president and chief inclusion, diversity and equity officer, effective April 25.  

Physicians at Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are witnessing the consequences of delayed cancer screenings, which are still down from pre-pandemic levels, Bloomberg reported April 11.

Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center is expanding its services to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune City, N.J., it said in an email to Becker's April 11.

Here are five hospitals and health systems that have opened new cancer facilities or shared plans to open new centers since March 10: