The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Indianapolis-based Community Health Network entered a partnership April 28 to create Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center researchers developed a radiomic model to predict patients who may experience poor lung cancer outcomes. 

Here are five hospitals and health systems that have opened new cancer facilities or shared plans to open new centers since April 12: 

Here are five recent moves announced by the American Cancer Society since March 31: 

Six oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments in the last few weeks.

A study involving data from more than 25,000 cancer survivors found those who reported medical financial hardships had a higher mortality risk than those without such hardships, according to findings published April 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Break Through Cancer, a research foundation, has awarded $50 million to five of the nation's leading cancer centers to spearhead projects aimed at improving outcomes for some of the deadliest cancers: glioblastoma, ovarian and pancreatic cancers. 

William Dahut, MD, has been named chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society. He will start May 16. 

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital named J. Paul Taylor, MD, PhD, scientific director and executive vice president, it said in an email to Becker's April 18.

Atlanta-based Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University opened the first immediate cancer care center in Georgia on April 18, it said in an email to Becker's.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center named Eileen Danaher Hacker, PhD, the chair of its nursing department, it said in an email to Becker's April 15. 

Ochsner Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, La., is planning on continuing its $10 million expansion, it said April 13. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed or expanded since April 1, starting with the most recent:

Penn Medicine has appointed Robert Vonderheide, MD, to a second five-year term as director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit recently opened the Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Toledo Clinic Cancer Center in Maumee, Ohio, it said in an email to Becker's April 12.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare on April 12 said they have received approval to build the state's first proton beam therapy center. 

Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute named Ian Matthew-Clayton vice president and chief inclusion, diversity and equity officer, effective April 25.  

Physicians at Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are witnessing the consequences of delayed cancer screenings, which are still down from pre-pandemic levels, Bloomberg reported April 11.

Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center is expanding its services to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune City, N.J., it said in an email to Becker's April 11.

Here are five hospitals and health systems that have opened new cancer facilities or shared plans to open new centers since March 10: