Oncology

News regarding an ethics complaint against MD Anderson was Becker's most-read oncology story in November.

Cancer treatment must be balanced with equal efforts to prevent and control its occurrence, researchers wrote in a report published Nov. 30 in Translational Behavioral Medicine. 

NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new center dedicated to blood and marrow transplants, according to a Nov. 29 press release.

Treatment with antihistamines was associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors, according to an MD Anderson study published Nov. 24 in Cancer Cell.

Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health named Elizabeth Bigger, MD, the system's new oncologist and hematologist, according to a Nov. 22 press release.

Tara Henderson, MD, has been named the new service line chief of Pediatric Cancer and Blood Diseases at the Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance and section chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at University of Chicago Medicine, according to…

Columbus, Ohio-based Mount Carmel Health System announced plans to further its oncology program at Mount Carmel Grove City through an affiliation with the James Cancer Network at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center in a Nov. 23 press release. 

States that were early to adopt Medicaid coverage expansion have seen lower cancer mortality rates than the 11 states that have resisted the change, according to a study from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. 

Recent oncology studies have focused on a national decrease in mortality rates, immunosuppressive cells' responses to stress signals and more. 

Patients with clonal hematopoiesis, an asymptomatic blood condition, can safely serve as stem cell transplant donors, which may lead to expanded donation pools, a study published Nov. 18 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.