Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health doubled its rate of early-stage lung cancer diagnoses after implementing an AI-powered tracking tool within its Epic EHR. The tool has led to more than 70% of all lung cancer diagnoses to occur during stage 1…
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Radiation therapy may account for half of all new cancers among the growing population of childhood cancer survivors, according to a study published Aug. 11 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. For the study, researchers from Duarte, Calif.-based City of…
Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded up to $28 million to develop an adaptive clinical trial targeting metastatic breast cancer. The trial is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s Advanced…
An NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (N.Y). team recently performed the system’s first stereotactic radiosurgery treatment using Varian’s TrueBeam linear accelerator. The hospital’s linear accelerator was funded by former Queens borough president Sharon Lee, according to a July 21 news release…
New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers Cancer Institute has tapped Joseph Contessa, MD, PhD, to serve as chair of radiation oncology for the institute, as well as for the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr.…
Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital and Broad Clinical Labs have partnered to launch a research initiative aimed at developing and disseminating clinical molecular testing assays for pediatric cancers. Each member of the Boston Research in Innovative Genomics for…
Obesity-related cancer deaths in the U.S. more than tripled between 1999 and 2020, according to a study abstract presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in July. Using CDC data, researchers calculated age-adjusted mortality rates and annual percent changes of…
Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care fully transitioned to digital pathology services July 1. The system’s central core laboratory and 12 hospital-based laboratories now scan glass pathology slides to create high-resolution digital images. Those images are then integrated into patient…
The Texas Legislature has approved $25 million in funding for Lubbock-based Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to establish the Rural Cancer Collaborative. TTUHSC will use the funding to develop “sustainable, high-impact solutions that bring lifesaving care closer to home,”…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has tapped Che-Kai Tsao, MD, to serve as system chief of solid tumor oncology and medical director of the Lake Success, N.Y.-based RJ Zuckerberg Cancer Center. Dr. Tsao will also serve as director of…