Oncology

The Biden administration is convening a Cancer Cabinet meeting Sept. 13 to unveil new initiatives meant to advance key goals of the Cancer Moonshot of cutting the cancer death rate by at least half within 25 years and improving the…

Los Angeles-based City of Hope received a $100 million gift to create a national integrative oncology program that will combine Eastern and Western medicine.

From treating cancer at home to creating faster, more cost-effective ways of detecting cancer early, oncology leaders say there are a number of possibilities to look forward to in the next 50 years.

Shelton "Shelley" Earp, MD, is stepping down as director of the Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, effective June 2024.

Cancer patients are nine times more likely to develop blood clots than non-cancer patients. That finding is what prompted the National Comprehensive Cancer Network to revise treatment guidelines for oncologists, according to a Sept. 7 news release.

Accessing cancer care as a non-English speaking patient has become an "alarming" challenge, according to researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

Over the past three decades, new cancer cases among people under 50 have risen by a "striking" 79 percent, according to new findings published Sept. 5 in BMJ Oncology. 

Researchers at Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital created a microdevice that could help physicians pick the right treatments for glioma tumors.

Here are the top 10 cancer hospitals in North Carolina, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023 annual rankings.

Osara Health in Dover, Del., and Oncology Care Partners in Nashville, Tenn., are the latest two organizations to join CancerX, a digital public-private partnership aiming to boost innovation and reduce cancer-caused deaths.