Facing federal funding uncertainty, a looming workforce shortage and an increasingly aging patient population, cancer center leaders in the U.S. remain undeterred. Their focus remains, as it has for decades, on one mission: to push cancer research and clinical care…
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Traditionally, goals-of-care conversations are reserved for end-of-life care, but The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is changing that. MD Anderson launched the Center for Goal Concordant Care in 2020. It has one overarching goal, “to ensure we have…
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag has appointed Steven Grossman, MD, PhD, as executive medical director for the Hoag Family Cancer Institute. Dr. Grossman previously served as physician-in-chief and deputy director for cancer services at Los Angeles-based University of Southern California’s Norris…
Of all 11 prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had the highest rate of nurses who patients said “always” communicated well between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024, according to CMS data published Feb. 19. The…
Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, led by Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD, from the…
Columbus-based Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has appointed W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, as CEO. Dr. Rathmell will step into the role May 27, pending board approval,…
New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had the lowest rate of ED visits for cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2023, according to CMS data published Feb. 19. CMS data reflects the rate of patients…
A blood test developed by researchers from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine is capable of detecting cancer and identifying how cancers might resist treatment. Here are four things to know about the test: Read the full study here.
For most screenable cancers, a pandemic-related surge of late-stage diagnoses in 2020 quickly returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, with the exception of cervical cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute’s “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of…
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has broken ground on the Saratoga Springs Multi-Specialty Clinic. The facility will offer primary care, speciality services and a new cancer center. The Intermountain Health Saratoga Springs Cancer Center will provide medical oncology, radiation oncology,…