Minneapolis-based Allina Health System has invested $50 million to launch the Allina Health Cancer Institute, the Star Tribune reported Oct. 28. 

The Miami Dolphins football team presented the University of Miami's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center with $6.3 million during an Oct. 24 game. 

A new pilot program at Yale Cancer Center offers patients next-day access for oncologic consultations to reduce treatment wait times and boost patient satisfaction, according to an Oct. 27 press release.

A cancer care delivery model specifically accounting for social determinants of health not only improved overall cancer survival rates up to 94 percent for white and Black patients, but also nearly eliminated racial health disparities in cancer care outcomes, according to a study set to be published in the Nov. 1 edition of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics.

Younger patients with metastatic colorectal cancer do not survive longer than older patients with the disease, according to findings recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 

Cleveland Clinic has started a phase I trial involving an investigational vaccine aimed at preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the health system said Oct. 26.

More than 600 global oncology leaders called for an urgent and comprehensive look at ways to advance health equity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic at the 2021 World Cancer Leaders’ Summit, according to a press release.

Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital is planning to build the Tampa Bay region's first freestanding proton therapy center, the hospital said Oct. 25.

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health has selected Eric Winer, MD, as the next director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief at its Smilow Cancer Hospital, effective Feb. 1, 2022. 

Morristown (N.J.) Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, has become the first hospital in the state to offer a new breast cancer treatment that protects the heart when delivering radiation therapy to the left breast. 

Medical oncology care provided at Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center will now be overseen by specialists from Buffalo, N.Y.-based Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. 

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

Transparimed, an advocacy group focused on clinical trial transparency, has filed an ethics complaint with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston over undisclosed results from a clinical trial completed in 2005. 

Recent oncology studies have focused on the proportion of U.S. cancer cases linked to physical inactivity, breast cancer patients' cannabis use, and more. 

Between 2013-16, about 3 percent of all cancer cases in the U.S. among people ages 30 and older were linked to physical inactivity, a study recently published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found. 

While many breast cancer patients use cannabis to relieve pain and other symptoms, few discuss the drug with their physicians, according to survey findings published Oct. 12 in Cancer. 

Researchers at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system have received $32.7 million for a trial to evaluate whether colonoscopy or stool-based testing is more effective at preventing colorectal cancer among older adults with a history of colon polyps. 

Boston-based Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center is launching a program dedicated to the needs of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ — the earliest form of breast cancer. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed since Sept. 28.  

The American Cancer Society plans to partner with Howard University in Washington, D.C., and three other historically Black medical schools for its new Diversity in Cancer Research pilot program, according to an Oct. 7 WTOP report.