The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $20 million gift to put toward the development of a new research center for lung cancer.
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Clinical trials are top of mind for Abhisek Swaika, MD, including how to improve access and build an infrastructure of care that patients seek, especially in the community setting.
Forty comprehensive cancer centers have committed to using new billing codes to provide navigation services for cancer patients as part of the Biden administration's Cancer Moonshot.
Breast cancer diagnoses dropped 15.7% for women and 21.8% for men during the pandemic, according to a study involving nearly 1.5 million patients.
Three Chicago health systems have collaborated with a nonprofit foundation to launch the Chicago Breast Cancer Research Consortium.
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It was a feeling of helplessness that led Mark Evers, MD, a gastrointestinal surgeon, to pursue cancer research.
Patients with metabolic syndrome have an increased risk for developing various types of cancer, according to new research from Gateway for Cancer Research, a nonprofit group based in Schaumburg, Ill.
Nearly half of oncologists said they use the internet for more than four hours every day for professional reasons, a recent Medscape survey found.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation released new guidelines for prostate-specific antigen-based screening in Black men.
The cyberattack on Change has some cancer centers scrambling to find money for chemotherapy to avoid delaying treatment, but Change said it plans to have cancer services up and running this week, The New York Times reported March 5.