Oncology

The rate of cancer among U.S. adolescents and young adults increased nearly 30 percent from 1973 to 2015, with kidney carcinoma rising at the largest rate, according to a JAMA Network study published Dec. 1

Cancer center leadership should prepare for ongoing and proactive communications to their providers, staff, patients, and the broader communities they serve.

A class-action lawsuit filed against St. Peter's Health in Helena, Mont., that claims patients were left unassigned to a new physician after the unexplained absence of one of the health system's oncologists was Becker's most-read oncology story in November. 

Women who underwent pulmonary resections for lung cancer had significantly higher survival rates than men who had the same surgery, according to a study published in Chest.

New changes to Anthem's individual market plan in Denver means Aurora, Colo.-based UC Health will no longer be in network for 31-year-old Johnathon Jansen, who's being treated by a cancer specialist at the system, reports ABC affiliate Denver7.

A Charlotte, N.C.-based radiologist, Robyn Stacy Humphries, MD, raised more than $263,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society after participating in a successful clinical trial that led to remission from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, local CBS affiliate WBTV reports. 

Cancer providers should prepare to welcome subsets of patients back into their physical facilities but pair traditional care settings with virtual platforms, ensuring continued protection of patient and staff health and safety.

Albuquerque-based University of New Mexico's Comprehensive Cancer Center named Bridget Fahy, MD, as the Victor and Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor of Complex Surgical Oncology Nov. 23. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University $576,035 Nov. 19 to expand access to skin cancer care, particularly for melanoma, in the state. 

Flash radiation therapy was used to treat the first patient in the world earlier this week during the start of a clinical trial at the Proton Therapy Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, according to a Nov. 19 news release.