These five oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments over the last few weeks.

New York-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and HTG Molecular Diagnostics announced Nov. 17 they have entered into a new research collaboration as part of HTG’s Transcriptome Panel Early Adopter Program. 

Researchers at Yale Cancer Center believe most advances in pancreatic cancer will be made through improving early detection, according to a Nov. 16 release.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has created a consumer blog for people with cancer and their families to improve patients' quality of life, the health system said Nov. 15. 

Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Hospital is set to open the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute Oncology Tower Nov. 15, local CBS affiliate 10 Tampa Bay reports. 

Mortality rates from all cancers combined in 2019 dropped 32 percent since 1991, when rates were at the highest, according to a Nov. 11 press release from the American Cancer Society. 

Here are five hospitals, health systems and cancer treatment centers that have expanded their cancer care facilities, opened new facilities, or shared plans to open new centers since Oct. 4. 

York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine have partnered to expand access to cancer care for South Central Pennsylvania residents. 

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received a $17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to address disparities in cancer research, treatment and outcomes according to a Nov. 6 press release.

Eligible cancer patients will soon be able to get infusion treatments at home through a pilot program from New Brunswick-based Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, part of RWJBarnabas Health. 

Researchers from Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center found immunosuppressive cells become more sensitive to stress signals as tumors grow, according to a Nov. 4 press release. 

Twenty percent of  patients who received chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy experienced adverse cardiovascular and pulmonary events, a study published in the November issue of Journal of the American College of Cardiology found. 

These six oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments over the last few months. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and BronxCare Health System opened a 10,000-square-foot cancer facility, a Nov. 4 press release said. 

Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe, PhD, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston, received a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to design a therapeutic strategy to prevent progression of advanced drug-resistant hormone-receptor positive breast cancers, according to a Nov. 3 press release.

UofL Health in Louisville, Ky., has partnered with Cancer and Blood Specialists of Louisville to open a third location of the academic health system's Brown Cancer Center. 

Researchers at Miami Cancer Institute are conducting several pediatric cancer studies focused on reducing dose to critical structures of the brain, minimizing toxicities from treatment and preserving neurocognitive function in survivors, Matthew Hall, MD, lead pediatric radiation oncologist at Miami Cancer Institute, said in a Nov. 3 press release.

Here are five cancer-related partnerships formed since Oct. 18.  

A story about an advocacy group filing an ethics complaint against the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston over undisclosed clinical trial results from 2005 was Becker's most-read oncology story in October.

Cancer patients in the U.S. spent $21.09 billion on care in 2019, according to an annual report published Oct. 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.