Oncology

Healthcare consolidation can drive up the cost of drugs and treatment for cancer patients, advocates told The Lancet.

The herpes simplex virus has been used to shrink and kill cancer tumors in a trial in the United Kingdom, the BBC reported Sept. 23.

Cleveland Clinic has received a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further its use of precision medicine and data to treat cancer.

President Joe Biden wants to foster research into developing blood tests that detect cancer as part of the Cancer Moonshot program, but scientists say identifying cancer's origins is complicated, The Washington Post reported Sept. 22.

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas awarded $2.5 million to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, according to a Sept. 14 news release.

The Society for Integrative Oncology and the American Society of Clinical Oncology published joint guidelines for safely and effectively treating common cancer symptoms and side effects using integrative medicine approaches, SIO reported Sept. 19.

Neptune, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval - Lung Cancer Accreditation and Esophageal Cancer Accreditation, according to a press release shared with Becker's Sept 21.

Cedars-Sinai Cancer has appointed three leaders to new roles.

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center appointed Jasmin Tiro, PhD, as associate director of cancer prevention and population sciences.

U.K.-based University of East Anglia researchers discovered that men with prostate cancer have a different prostate environment than men without prostate cancer.