Oncology

Among 38 patients with B-cell blood cancers, 21 (55 percent) produced antibodies after receiving a booster dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine despite not producing detectable antibodies after the first two doses, according to a recent study led by the…

Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego, part of Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center, opened the $59 million Prebys Cancer Center Sept. 13. 

These three oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments recently.

Recent oncology studies have focused on the severity of COVID-19 illness among pediatric cancer patients, outcomes among cancer patients diagnosed after the pandemic lockdown and more. 

Patients in France who were newly diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer after the country's first COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 had a higher tumor burden compared to those who were diagnosed before the lockdown, according to research published Sept. 8…

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Cancer Center has named Edward Kaftan, PhD, to serve as the associate cancer center director for research affairs, effective Jan. 1, 2022. 

A genomic analysis of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking found a majority of tumors arising from the accumulation of mutations caused by natural body processes, according to findings published Sept. 6 in Nature Genetics.

The OhioHealth Delaware Medical Campus is now providing stereotactic radiosurgery, a precise form of minimally invasive radiation therapy used to treat abnormalities in the brain and spine, the health system said Sept. 7. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed since Aug. 13. 

Johnson & Johnson sunscreen product recalls was Becker's most read story in summer 2021.