Oncology

Leveraging technology to transform cancer care and improve equity is the industry's biggest opportunity for growth, according to leaders from two top-five cancer centers, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, who shared their insights with Becker's.

Cancer care is becoming more complicated, creating a larger gap between specialty hospitals and local physicians, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 22.

The territory of Puerto Rico had the lowest colorectal cancer screening rate in 2022 at 55.5% — nearly 20 percentage points lower than the state with the highest rate of 75.3%, Connecticut.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has opened a new cancer center at the system's Holy Rosary Hospital in Miles City, Mont.

Timothy Mullett, MD, leaned toward his computer screen as he spoke, drowning out the sounds of the busy coffee shop behind him to get his message across. 

Norman-based University of Oklahoma has received a $17.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve cancer outcomes in Native American tribal nations and communities. 

Cancer care designations serve as a way to distinguish the research, clinical services, and cancer prevention efforts taking place at a cancer center, hospital or health system. 

The American Cancer Society has named Wayne Frederick, MD, as interim CEO of the organization and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. The news comes one month after the organization announced its current CEO, Karen Knudsen,…

Towson, Md.-based Greater Baltimore Medical Center has finished construction on a new $94 million cancer center where it will begin seeing patients early next year, according to an Oct. 16 report from the Baltimore Business Journal. 

Philadelphia-based Fox Chase Cancer Center has been named a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging. Fox Chase is the first center in Philadelphia and one of three in Pennsylvania to receive…