Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Cancer Institute, part of WVU Medicine, later this month will start traveling to rural regions in the state to provide fully mobile lung cancer screening to residents, the health system said Aug. 5. 

As health systems work to reduce costs and embrace medical advancements, cancer centers must find ways to align the care they deliver with reimbursement that will keep them financially viable.

Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy may benefit patients with microsatellite stable colorectal cancer whose disease has not spread to the liver, according to research published Aug. 9 in JAMA Network Open. 

James Edney, MD, former division chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, died in a small plane crash in Minnesota Aug. 7, the StarTribune reports. He was 72. 

Of 16,732 patients with metastatic prostate cancer who died after being diagnosed between 2000 and 2016, nearly 17 percent died from other causes, according to a study published Aug. 5 in JAMA Network Open.

U.S. News & World Report evaluated 913 hospitals for cancer care for its 2021-22 rankings, scoring them based on patient outcomes, volume of high-risk patients, patient experience, nurse staffing and advanced clinical technologies.

Morrison Cancer Center to open new facility in September  Morrison Cancer Center in Hastings, Neb., will open a new treatment facility at Grand Island (Neb.) Regional Medical Center in September.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth is building a $3.2 million dollar infusion center at its Hulston Cancer Center that's expected to be complete in December. 

A new initiative remotely connects cancer patients in India to oncologists and clinical trials at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 

Many U.S. cancer centers don't offer chemical dependency services for patients with substance use disorders, according to research published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's July issue. 

Here five are hospitals, health systems or cancer institutes that have expanded their facilities or shared plans to open new centers since July 13. 

Recent oncology studies have focused on the effect of misinformation in cancer treatment articles on social media, the benefits of smoking cessation after a lung cancer diagnosis and more. 

Lung cancer patients who quit smoking after diagnosis lived nearly 22 months longer than patients who continued smoking, according to research published July 27 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Johnson & Johnson's voluntary recall of five sunscreen products after internal testing detected low levels of benzene was Becker's most-read oncology story in July.

St. Louis-based Siteman Cancer Center, part of Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, plans to open a 659,000-square-foot outpatient cancer center in summer 2024. 

Oncologists experienced significant occupational and personal consequences as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a qualitative interview-based study recently published in JCO Oncology Practice. 

Atlanta-based Winship Cancer Institute, part of Emory University, has selected Adam Marcus, PhD, to serve as deputy director, effective Aug. 1. 

The National Council of Negro Women filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson in the Superior Court of New Jersey July 27. The organization alleges the company's baby powder advertising targeted Black women despite knowing the talc-based products were unsafe. 

New Jersey has appropriated $10 million to advance pediatric cancer research and support the development of a children's cancer center at Rutgers Cancer Institute. 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston earned the top spot on U.S. News & World Report's 2021-22 Best Hospitals for Cancer ranking.