Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Center for Cancer Care has a new formal affiliation with Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center which will expand specialized cancer treatments, resources and trials for patients in southeastern Ohio, the Logan Daily News reported Oct. 20.
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UC San Diego Health treated their first patient with a new urinary tract cancer treatment which can prevent the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.
UK researchers discovered a new test for cervical cancer that's more accurate and could predict breast and ovarian cancers, The Guardian reported Oct. 19.
A global approval system for oncology therapies could reduce the number of global cancer-related deaths by 10 percent to 20 percent, according to an Oct. 18 article in Harvard Business Review.
Bridgeport, Conn.-based St. Vincent's Medical Center, a Hartford HealthCare hospital, is the first in the state to use magtrace on a woman with breast cancer.
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Gynecologic oncologist Jeannine Villella, DO, has been appointed director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute Cancer Institute at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Health broke ground on its $150 million cancer and surgery center Oct. 14, KURV710 reported.
Dr. Naoto Ueno has been appointed director of the Honolulu-based University of Hawai'i Cancer Center.
A JAMA Network Open study found participating in Medicare's Oncology Care Model was not associated with decreased prescribing of novel cancer therapies.