Oncology

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network released recommendations for treating and preventing COVID-19 in cancer patients March 11. 

New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Thomas Daniels, MD, chief of the radiation oncology department at its Perlmutter Cancer Center-Sunset Park March 11. 

Detroit-based Henry Ford Cancer Institute has launched a community-based research effort to increase the number of African Americans and other minority groups included in clinical trials for cancer, the health system said March 11. 

Patients with COVID-19 who have compromised immune systems from other diseases such as cancer or HIV may serve as hosts for new variants, a number of case reports suggest, The Washington Post reported March 11.

Here are five recent cancer care-related partnerships and affiliations formed since Feb. 10. 

Here are seven hospitals, health systems and cancer institutes that have expanded their facilities or shared plans to open new centers since Feb. 18. 

A massive free-standing cancer pavilion in New Brunswick, N.J., which will be the state's first, is tentatively scheduled to open in 2024, Jersey's Best reported March 10. 

Head and neck cancer patients who reported high levels of financial worry, or financial toxicity, at the start of treatment were about twice as likely to have worse outcomes, according to research findings published in the April 2021 edition of…

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force provided updated lung cancer screening guidelines March 9 in a statement published in JAMA. The advice is an update from 2013 guidelines and nearly doubles the number of people eligible for screening. 

Telehealth has proved to be a valuable way to expand access to care and ensure patients continue receiving healthcare services, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's not a one-size-fits-all solution across specialties.