Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag Family Cancer Institute recruited an oncologist "power couple" — Monica Mita, MD, and Alain Mita, MD — to serve as leaders in its organization.
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Oklahoma City-based OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center is expanding to the northeastern part of the state.
Sixty-four percent of oncologists said they have felt burned out for at least 13 months — an 18% increase over last year's responses, according to a Medscape report.
MercyOne's specialty clinic in Des Moines is ending gynecologic oncology surgical services June 1, ABC affiliate KCCI reported April 23.
The FDA has approved a first-in-class bladder cancer drug.
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Physicians prescribe 5% more cancer drugs following a pharmaceutical representitive's visit, but the practice does not appear to affect cancer patients' mortality, NPR reported April 22.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers found a way to predict when a rare eye cancer will respond to treatment, The Washington Post reported April 22.
The National Cancer Institute recognized Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health's Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center as a comprehensive cancer center.
The implementation of IT solutions that pull physicians away from patients and moving profits to payer groups are two issues that concern John Montville, executive director of the oncology service line at Mercy Health-Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky.
Bin Zheng, PhD, who specializes in targeted therapies and immunotherapy, was appointed director of melanoma research in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Cancer.