Cancer providers should prepare to welcome subsets of patients back into their physical facilities but pair traditional care settings with virtual platforms, ensuring continued protection of patient and staff health and safety.
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Albuquerque-based University of New Mexico's Comprehensive Cancer Center named Bridget Fahy, MD, as the Victor and Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor of Complex Surgical Oncology Nov. 23.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture granted the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University $576,035 Nov. 19 to expand access to skin cancer care, particularly for melanoma, in the state.
Flash radiation therapy was used to treat the first patient in the world earlier this week during the start of a clinical trial at the Proton Therapy Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, according to a Nov. 19 news release.
Here are four hospitals, health systems and cancer treatment centers that have expanded their cancer care facilities or shared plans to open new centers since Nov. 11.
The nation's five-year survival rate for lung cancer has increased 13 percent since 2015, though lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association's State of Lung Cancer 2020 report.
NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center is advancing its lung cancer care in New York City's Brooklyn borough by partnering with NYU Langone Hospital to widen access to its screening program and treatment expansions.
A class-action lawsuit filed Nov. 13 against St. Peter's Health in Helena, Mont., claims patients of Tom Weiner, MD, an oncologist at the hospital, weren't consulted before his unexplained absence in late October, resulting in gaps in their care, reports…
Cancer care facilities should prepare for an increase in clinical volume despite coping with financial constraints resulting from COVID-19.
Here are four recent cancer partnerships and affiliations formed since Nov. 9.