Finding another oncology leader more focused on his team and collaboration than William Tse, MD, division director of hematology and oncology at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, could prove difficult.

President Biden will nominate Monica Bertagnolli, MD, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

Pharmacy benefit managers are pushing policies called "white bagging" in cancer care, arrangements that could lead to increased spending, drug waste and worse patient outcomes, Debra Patt, MD, PhD, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist and executive vice president of Dallas-based Texas Oncology, wrote in a May 14 op-ed for the Austin American-Statesman.

Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina researchers found mailing human papillomavirus self-collection tests to under-screened, low-income women nearly doubles the number of screenings completed.

A small, phase 1 study found promising results for a pancreatic cancer vaccine.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine received a $35 million gift from Theodore Giovanis, a researcher, philanthropist and race car driver.

Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia will now offer patients a new radiation technique known as "cone-beam computed tomography-based adaptive radiation therapy," according to a May 10 news release.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center researchers found telehealth consistently outperformed in-person visits for access to care and provider response.

Early detection for some cancers can come up to three years before a traditional diagnosis with the aid of artificial intelligence, researchers have found according to a May 8 news release from Harvard Medical School.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is lowering the age recommendation for breast cancer screening for women with an average risk.

An Oregon dermatologist diagnosed the world's smallest skin cancer spot.

High-risk breast cancer patients who adhere to a healthy lifestyle as outlined by national guidelines have a 37 percent reduced risk of disease recurrence and a 58 percent lower death risk, according to new findings led by researchers at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Boston-based Mass General Cancer Center used fluorescent agent technology during breast cancer surgery to remove residual tumor cells and possibly prevent the need for secondary surgery.

An American Cancer Society report found 45 percent of U.S. cancer deaths expected this year could be attributed to avoidable risk factors.

A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, diarrhea and iron deficiency anemia may be the earliest signs of colorectal cancer among people under 50. 

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine and Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers found that a slow rate of breast density decline is associated with an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Md., will begin construction on its cancer pavilion expansion in the fall, Washington Business Journal reported May 2.

Patients who have asthma are 1.36 times more likely to develop cancer in their lifetime than others, new research out of the University of Florida in Gainesville found.

Two nurses at Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center developed a tool that standardizes patient education and safety admission protocol.

There are the 10 most-read oncology stories published by Becker's in April: