Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is planning a 110,000-square-foot, $200 million expansion of its proton beam therapy program facility. The addition is expected to be complete in 2025.
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Oncologists in the U.S. earned an average of about $403,000 in 2021, up from $377,000 in 2020, according to Medscape's Oncologist Wealth & Debt Report published Aug. 13.
Between 2013-18, marijuana use among cancer patients peaked at 9 percent, compared to 14 percent among the general public, according to research findings published Aug. 13 in Cancer.
Debra Wilson, MSN, RN, has been named vice president of oncology at Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Health.
Here are four recent cancer-focused partnerships formed since July 15.
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The National Cancer Institute has awarded $4 million to Mount Sinai, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center to study the effectiveness of anal cancer screening interventions among women with a previous HPV infection diagnosis.
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute, part of WVU Medicine, later this month will start traveling to rural regions in the state to provide fully mobile lung cancer screening to residents, the health system said Aug. 5.
As health systems work to reduce costs and embrace medical advancements, cancer centers must find ways to align the care they deliver with reimbursement that will keep them financially viable.
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy may benefit patients with microsatellite stable colorectal cancer whose disease has not spread to the liver, according to research published Aug. 9 in JAMA Network Open.
James Edney, MD, former division chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, died in a small plane crash in Minnesota Aug. 7, the StarTribune reports. He was 72.