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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.

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.

Carlos Perez, MD, an internationally renowned cancer researcher and professor emeritus of radiation oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, died Aug. 21 at 88.

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