Oncology

The following oncologists joined new practices, received new appointments or left roles in the last few weeks:

Mount Sinai Medical Center will launch a cancer center on its main campus in Miami Beach, South Florida Hospital News reported March 7.

A 15-member external advisory board for the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., resigned following the unexpected removal of the center's director, the Winston-Salem Journal reported March 6. 

A study examining differences between men and women receiving immune or targeted cancer therapies found that women faced more adverse events than men, just as they face more adverse events with chemotherapy, according to the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Yale researchers discovered that the epigenetic regulator gene cat eye syndrome chromosome region candidate 2, or CECR2, is responsible for driving breast cancer metastasis. 

News about potential negative consequences when prescribing metformin for cancer patients was Becker's most-read oncology story in February. 

Anatoly Nikolaev, MD, PhD, has joined the Cleveland Clinic Weston (Fla.) Maroone Cancer Center. 

The financial relief of medical crowdfunding is often accompanied by feelings of shame in asking for help, a study published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship suggests.

Raleigh, N.C.-based UNC Rex Healthcare opened a new cancer center March 1. 

About 1 in 7 breast cancer cases are overdiagnosed, a study published March 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine found.