Towson, Md.-based Greater Baltimore Medical Center has finished construction on a new $94 million cancer center where it will begin seeing patients early next year, according to an Oct. 16 report from the Baltimore Business Journal.
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Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center has been named a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging. Fox Chase is the first center in Philadelphia and one of three in Pennsylvania to receive…
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center had the lowest 30-day unplanned readmission rate of cancer hospitals exempt from reporting to Medicare's Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
The state of Wyoming had the lowest breast cancer screening rate in 2022 at 59.5% — nearly 20% lower than the state with the highest rate of 78.4%, Rhode Island.
Omaha, Neb.-based University of Nebraska Medical Center's Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center has launched a new cancer prevention and control program to address cancer risk factors and population disparities specific to Nebraska.
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Effective Sept. 10, the FDA required healthcare facilities providing breast imaging services to notify patients of their breast density in mammography reports. Now, some experts are expressing concern over the new mandate, according to an Oct. 12 report from NBC…
The National Cancer Institute has launched a toolkit as part of its National Standards for Cancer Survivorship Care initiative to help health systems develop and improve survivorship care programs.
Kansas City-based University of Kansas Cancer Center has launched the Center for Survivorship and Patient-Oriented Research as part of an initiative to improve not only cancer survival rates, but cancer survivor quality of life.
New York City-based NYU Langone has named Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, as director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center's new Center for Molecular Oncology. In collaboration with teams across NYU Langone, Dr. Ganesan will lead integration of genomic sequencing to personalize…
Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has partnered with the Union for International Cancer Control to address breast and cervical cancer on a global scale.