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Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute, part of WVU Medicine, later this month will start traveling to rural regions in the state to provide fully mobile lung cancer screening to residents, the health system said Aug. 5. 

James Edney, MD, former division chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, died in a small plane crash in Minnesota Aug. 7, the StarTribune reports. He was 72. 

Of 16,732 patients with metastatic prostate cancer who died after being diagnosed between 2000 and 2016, nearly 17 percent died from other causes, according to a study published Aug. 5 in JAMA Network Open.

U.S. News & World Report evaluated 913 hospitals for cancer care for its 2021-22 rankings, scoring them based on patient outcomes, volume of high-risk patients, patient experience, nurse staffing and advanced clinical technologies.

Morrison Cancer Center to open new facility in September  Morrison Cancer Center in Hastings, Neb., will open a new treatment facility at Grand Island (Neb.) Regional Medical Center in September.

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