The National Comprehensive Cancer Network released recommendations for treating and preventing COVID-19 in cancer patients March 11. 

New York City-based NYU Langone Health named Thomas Daniels, MD, chief of the radiation oncology department at its Perlmutter Cancer Center-Sunset Park March 11. 

Detroit-based Henry Ford Cancer Institute has launched a community-based research effort to increase the number of African Americans and other minority groups included in clinical trials for cancer, the health system said March 11. 

Patients with COVID-19 who have compromised immune systems from other diseases such as cancer or HIV may serve as hosts for new variants, a number of case reports suggest, The Washington Post reported March 11.

Here are five recent cancer care-related partnerships and affiliations formed since Feb. 10. 

Here are seven hospitals, health systems and cancer institutes that have expanded their facilities or shared plans to open new centers since Feb. 18. 

A massive free-standing cancer pavilion in New Brunswick, N.J., which will be the state's first, is tentatively scheduled to open in 2024, Jersey's Best reported March 10. 

Head and neck cancer patients who reported high levels of financial worry, or financial toxicity, at the start of treatment were about twice as likely to have worse outcomes, according to research findings published in the April 2021 edition of Oral Oncology.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force provided updated lung cancer screening guidelines March 9 in a statement published in JAMA. The advice is an update from 2013 guidelines and nearly doubles the number of people eligible for screening. 

Telehealth has proved to be a valuable way to expand access to care and ensure patients continue receiving healthcare services, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's not a one-size-fits-all solution across specialties. 

There is no denying COVID-19 has transformed much of our world, perhaps permanently. But exactly what that means for future cancer patients and providers is yet to be seen.

Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation is providing a $2.75 million, three-year grant to several Cleveland-based cancer centers and community partners, which are collaborating to develop a community-based prostate cancer screening program.

In a worldwide survey, 78 percent of institutions said the COVID-19 pandemic affected their ability to provide childhood cancer care, according to findings published March 3 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. 

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health joined Caris' Precision Oncology Alliance March 2. 

Eight scientists have formed a cancer research center that aims to widen access to clinical trials at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, the health system said March 1. 

The O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham received an emergency lodging grant from the American Cancer Society to support the lodging needs of vulnerable patient populations, the university said March 1. 

President Joe Biden is urging Americans to stay vigilant against cancer and not avoid any necessary screenings or treatments.

As more people are vaccinated against COVID-19, physicians are noticing an uptick in the number of people with enlarged lymph nodes in the armpit area, which can be mistaken as a sign of cancer on routine imaging such as mammograms and CT scans, The New York Times reported March 1. 

Loretto Hospital in Chicago is providing free colon cancer screenings throughout the month of March in observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the hospital said March 1. 

A large study indicating people who are exposed to high amounts of artificial light at night are at increased risk of developing thyroid cancer was Becker's most-read oncology story in February.