Oncology

Most primary care physicians misinterpret the association between cancer screening, improved survival and increased detection as evidence that screening reduces mortality, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

McKee Medical Center in Loveland, Colo., announced the beginning of a more than $9 million cancer center expansion project.

St. Anthony Medical Campus in Lakewood, Colo., announced the opening of its new cancer center.

The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City announced the opening of its new women's heart center.

David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and Boston-based Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center have partnered to study pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, according to a Boston Globe report.

Verde Valley Medical Center in Cottonwood, Ariz., announced the hospital and the Cancer Centers of Northern Arizona Healthcare-Sedona have affiliated with The University of Arizona Cancer Center based in Tucson.

University Hospital in Cleveland is now one of just several hospitals in the country performing cryoablation to provide pain relief to cancer patients, according an NBC 5 Cleveland report.

The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults has announced the opening of a new Adolescent and Young Adult Patient Navigation Program at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore.

Hospitals are increasingly offering formal cancer survivorship programs to improve care for oncology patients, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare has performed the first transplant within its new bone marrow transplant program, according to an Arizona Republic report.