Hartford HealthCare’s St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has received a $15 million gift from the estate of Neil Mellen to expand and modernize its inpatient oncology unit. The donation — one of the largest in Hartford HealthCare’s history…
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Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has received a $30 million gift from the Cayton Goldrich Family Foundation to establish the Cedars-Sinai Cayton BRCA Center. The new center will focus on research, diagnosis and treatment of cancers linked to mutations in the BRCA1…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health and San Antonio-based START Center for Cancer Research opened a $5.7 million early-phase clinical trial facility Dec. 16 at Northwell’s R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center in Lake Success, N.Y. The Northwell-START New York-Long Island center…
Radiation therapy offered no survival benefit for women with early-stage breast cancer who received mastectomy, lymph node surgery and cancer drugs, according to an international study published Nov. 5 in The New England Journal of Medicine. The phase 3 randomized…
Not every critical innovation in cancer care comes from a Phase III trial or a new drug approval. Sometimes, progress comes from a new onboarding curriculum that improves how nurses acclimate to a high-acuity unit. It could come from a…
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 The World Economic Forum’s Global Alliance for Women’s Health has announced a widespread philanthropic collaboration with leading healthcare companies Siemens Healthineers, Xenco Medical, and AstraZeneca. This powerful coalition, named the Afya Dada Project, Swahili for “Health…
Becker’s Healthcare is proud to unveil its 2025 list of hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in oncology. These leading institutions have earned national distinction for advancing cancer care through groundbreaking research, innovative treatments and transformative clinical trials. Many…
Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C., have developed an AI-based tool to support clinicians in predicting which patients may be at high risk of serious complications after a stem cell or bone marrow transplant. Four details to…
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has expanded its cell and gene therapy program to include 12 FDA-approved therapies. The program now offers more cell and gene therapies than any pediatric center on the West Coast, according to a March 5 news…
The number of deceased donors whose transplanted organs were suspected of transmitting Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus increased about five-fold between January 2021 and September 2025 compared to between 2016 and 2020, according to a March 5 report from the CDC. A…