Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center said it has laid off 76 employees and eliminated 81 open positions June 30 in response to financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Black people experience higher death rates and shorter survival for most cancers than any other racial group in the U.S., showing that the "current cancer care system is failing Black people," a physician wrote in an opinion piece for STAT…
The incidence of new thyroid cancer cases rose 169 percent over 27 years worldwide, a new study shows.
Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles opened the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center June 29, a new 45,000-square-foot outpatient facility that has been seven years in the making.
Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare has opened the $93.5 million, 253,000-square-foot Sentara Brock Cancer Center.
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Receiving certain common treatments, such as chemotherapy, did not worsen outcomes for cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19, a new study shows.
Erlanger Health System and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center announced June 26 a new agreement designating VICC as Erlanger's only contracted provider of inpatient and outpatient hematology and oncology services.
The FDA will create a website to host information on patient-reported symptoms from cancer-related clinical trials, making it more easily accessible to the public and healthcare professionals.
Blood tests can serve as an accurate, less-invasive method for brain tumor diagnostics and categorization, according to a study published June 22 in Nature Medicine.
U.S. oncologists experienced high anxiety rates at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study shows.