Oncology

Cleveland Clinic now offers an advanced genomic testing platform as standard of care to patients with cancer, according to a Nov. 18 press release.

These five oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments over the last few weeks.

New York-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and HTG Molecular Diagnostics announced Nov. 17 they have entered into a new research collaboration as part of HTG’s Transcriptome Panel Early Adopter Program. 

Researchers at Yale Cancer Center believe most advances in pancreatic cancer will be made through improving early detection, according to a Nov. 16 release.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has created a consumer blog for people with cancer and their families to improve patients' quality of life, the health system said Nov. 15. 

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital is set to open the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute Oncology Tower Nov. 15, local CBS affiliate 10 Tampa Bay reports. 

Mortality rates from all cancers combined in 2019 dropped 32 percent since 1991, when rates were at the highest, according to a Nov. 11 press release from the American Cancer Society. 

Here are five hospitals, health systems and cancer treatment centers that have expanded their cancer care facilities, opened new facilities, or shared plans to open new centers since Oct. 4. 

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have partnered to expand access to cancer care for South Central Pennsylvania residents. 

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address disparities in cancer research, treatment and outcomes according to a Nov. 6 press release.