Menomonee Falls, Wis.-based Froedtert ThedaCare Health and Milwaukee-based Medical College of Wisconsin have opened Wisconsin’s first proton therapy facility. The facility is located at the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center on the Froedtert Hospital campus…
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A molecular test designed by researchers at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine detected nearly twice as many bile duct cancers as standard pathology, according to a study published March 27 in Gastroenterology.…
Complex prompting may yield more successful results when using AI to analyze physician interviews with pediatric cancer survivors, according to a study published March 25 in Communications Medicine. For the study, researchers from Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital…
As clinical trial decentralization gains traction, there is one bottleneck limiting equitable access: inconsistent patient identification. Becker’s spoke to 14 oncology industry leaders about which strategies are most critical to expanding access — and where gaps remain. The contributors to…
Baltimore-based University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center will launch a cancer researcher training program through a $3 million National Cancer Institute grant. The Advancing Oncologic Research Communities in Health Equity program will support early-career faculty and…
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Between 1990 and 2021, the global incidence of early-onset cancers grew while mortality fell, according to a study published Feb. 4 in JCO Global Oncology. Researchers from academic institutions around the world analyzed data from the 2021 Global Burden of…
Dallas-based UT Southwestern Medical Center has partnered with InterAct Therapeutics to develop and commercialize a gene therapy designed to treat breast cancer liver metastasis. The partnership builds on the research of Isaac Chan, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine…
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health and Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine have named Roy Herbst, MD, PhD, director of the Dartmouth Cancer Center. Dr. Herbst currently serves as deputy director and chief of medical oncology and hematology at Yale…
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Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is piloting a GPS-style program to improve care coordination after mammograms for patients identified as having a high risk for breast cancer. The system will enroll 250 patients to test the program at San Francisco-based California…