Alignment Healthcare's Medicare Advantage plan, Alignment Health Plan, is the first in the country to cover Galleri, a multi-cancer early detection blood test developed by Grail.
Oncology
Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine announced five new physicians leading the institution's cancer care teams in a Dec. 3 blog post.
These eight oncologists joined new practices, received new appointments or left their positions over the last few weeks.
Scott Lippman, MD, will step down as director of Moores Cancer Center at University of California-San Diego Health once a successor is found, according to a Nov. 29 news release.
News regarding an ethics complaint against MD Anderson was Becker's most-read oncology story in November.
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Cancer treatment must be balanced with equal efforts to prevent and control its occurrence, researchers wrote in a report published Nov. 30 in Translational Behavioral Medicine.
NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new center dedicated to blood and marrow transplants, according to a Nov. 29 press release.
Treatment with antihistamines was associated with improved responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors, according to an MD Anderson study published Nov. 24 in Cancer Cell.
Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health named Elizabeth Bigger, MD, the system's new oncologist and hematologist, according to a Nov. 22 press release.
Tara Henderson, MD, has been named the new service line chief of Pediatric Cancer and Blood Diseases at the Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance and section chief of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation at University of Chicago Medicine, according to…