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The Biden administration launched the $50 million Persistent Poverty Initiative, which is designed to alleviate the effects of poverty on cancer outcomes.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the University of Washington department of medicine, both based in Seattle, named Sara Hurvitz, MD, senior vice president of the clinical research division at Fred Hutch and head of the division of hematology and oncology…
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The North Carolina attorney general sent a letter to Asheville, N.C.-based HCA's Mission Health accusing it of having only a single medical oncologist on staff, the Citizen Times reported June 22.
Flatiron Health, a cancer software company based in New York City, will lay off 39 employees due to economic hardships Flatiron is experiencing.
Chemo-brain, a commonly reported side effect of the cancer therapy, is not deeply understood, but new research is signaling that cognitive behavioral therapy and a combination of other methods could alleviate it, The Washington Post reported June 20.
Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and New Orleans-based Ochsner Health are partnering to create an integrated cancer program in Louisiana.
U.S. News & World Report recently named its top children's hospital for pediatric cancer.
West Virginia University in Morgantown has received a $50 million investment from the state to expand its cancer research, according to a June 15 news release.