Researchers at New York City's Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery uncovered why cancer cells spread to the spine three to five times more than other bones, The Washington Post reported Nov. 28.
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New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened its $32 million cancer center.
Bryan Burt, MD, an internationally renowned surgeon-scientist and surgical oncologist, was named chief of thoracic surgery at UCLA Health.
The FDA is investigating several reports of T cell malignancies, lymphoma and other adverse events in clinical trial patients who reported previously receiving certain CAR-T cell immunotherapies for treatment.
The FDA published final guidelines for applicants submitting biologics license applications or new drug applications in its real-time oncology review pilot.
President Joe Biden said Nov. 17 that he intends to tap W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, to lead the National Cancer Institute.
Portland, Maine-based Northern Light Mercy Hospital is partnering with Boston-based Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Youth cancer mortality fell 24% in the past two decades, the CDC's National Center of Health Statistics found.
Decatur, Texas-based Wise Health System is relocating some of its oncology services and closing its radiation therapy services Dec. 1, The Messenger reported Nov. 15.
The national lung cancer five-year survival rate is 26.6%, but most states fall under the average.