The National Cancer Institute has awarded $4 million to Mount Sinai, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center to study the effectiveness of anal cancer screening interventions among women with a previous HPV infection diagnosis.
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Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health is teaming up with Sema4, a genomics company spun out of Mount Sinai Health System, on a precision medicine initiative to improve cancer treatments.
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.
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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.