Oncology

A judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit brought by patients against Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health and its CEO Wade Johnson, saying the claims must first be filed with the state's medical legal panel, the Independent Record reported Feb. 2. 

These six oncologists joined new practices or received new appointments over the last few months. 

Emil Freireich, MD, an oncologist who worked at Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for more than 50 years, died at the center Feb. 1. He was 93. 

Stories involving the removal of a former oncologist at Helena, Mont.-based St. Peter's Health were Becker's top-read oncology briefs in January. 

When life expectancy reaches less than five years in older breast cancer survivors, clinicians can discontinue mammograms, according to new guidelines published in JAMA Oncology Jan. 28. 

Cervical cancer screening rates dropped substantially at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente's Southern California division after the state implemented a stay-at-home order last spring, the CDC said in a Jan. 29 report. 

A coalition of 76 organizations penned a letter Jan. 28 calling for cancer screenings and treatments to resume amid slow downs brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Two radiation oncologists partnered to open South Central Kentucky Regional Cancer Center in Bowling Green, Bowling Green Daily News reported Jan. 27. 

The U.S. Department of Defense will provide University of Toledo (Ohio) researchers $1.4 million for a pre-clinical study on a potential new chemotherapy to treat triple-negative breast cancer, local CBS affiliate WTOL reported Jan. 25. 

A January report from the Texas Department of Health Services found children living near a former railroad yard in Houston's historically Black Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens neighborhood contracted leukemia at a five times greater rate compared to the state…