Morgantown-based West Virginia University Health System and WVU Cancer Institute are partnering with the city of Wheeling and the Ohio County Commission to build a new cancer center in Wheeling, W.Va.

A gift from Roy Zuckerberg, a longtime trustee of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, led to the creation of the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Hospital and the R.J. Zuckerberg Cancer Center, Long Island Business News reported Oct. 21.

The California Cancer Care Equity Act was signed into law Sept. 27, expanding access to specialized care to Medi-Cal patients with complex cancer, according to the Cancer Care is Different Coalition.

OhioHealth Marion Cancer Center, a $20 million, 24,000-square-foot facility, will open on Oct. 24, Marion Star reported.

Oral anticancer drugs are an increasingly prescribed form of treatment. However, studies found that 10 percent to 20 percent of patients never received the prescription, and New York-based researchers set out to discover why.

Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Center for Cancer Care has a new formal affiliation with Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center which will expand specialized cancer treatments, resources and trials for patients in southeastern Ohio, the Logan Daily News reported Oct. 20.

UC San Diego Health treated their first patient with a new urinary tract cancer treatment which can prevent the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.

UK researchers discovered a new test for cervical cancer that's more accurate and could predict breast and ovarian cancers, The Guardian reported Oct. 19.

A global approval system for oncology therapies could reduce the number of global cancer-related deaths by 10 percent to 20 percent, according to an Oct. 18 article in Harvard Business Review.

Bridgeport, Conn.-based St. Vincent's Medical Center, a Hartford HealthCare hospital, is the first in the state to use magtrace on a woman with breast cancer.

Here are four systems welcoming oncologists to their respective staffs:

Gynecologic oncologist Jeannine Villella, DO, has been appointed director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute Cancer Institute at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Health broke ground on its $150 million cancer and surgery center Oct. 14, KURV710 reported.

Dr. Naoto Ueno has been appointed director of the Honolulu-based University of Hawai'i Cancer Center.

A JAMA Network Open study found participating in Medicare's Oncology Care Model was not associated with decreased prescribing of novel cancer therapies.

Here are six findings from cancer studies and other research efforts Becker's has covered since Oct. 4:

Here are four new cancer centers Becker's has covered since Oct. 5:

Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are partnering with Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, Mass., to jointly invest more than $60 million into pediatric cancer research.

The Association of Community Cancer Centers named five winning programs for the 12th annual ACCC Innovator Awards Oct. 13.

Fayetteville, Ark.-based Namida Lab launched the first at-home product that could detect breast cancer using tears, news station KFOR reported Oct. 13.