Oncology

Community hospitals in Massachusetts are benefiting from a high volume of bariatric surgeries, according to a CBS Boston report.

Many hospitals are building or upgrading oncology centers to more efficiently and effectively treat cancer patients. For example, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center, both in Omaha, recently announced preliminary plans for an estimated $370…

Ben Venue Laboratories is releasing a limited supply of preservative-free methotrexate to ease the shortage of the pediatric cancer drug, according to a company news release.

Anil Potti, MD, former researcher at Duke University in Durham, N.C., has been accused of purposely falsifying data, according to a Chronicle report.

Adult hospital stays principally for cancer cost $20.1 billion, accounting for 6 percent of adult inpatient hospital costs in 2009, according to a statistical brief published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

A senator and three professional medical associations have sent messages urging pharmaceutical companies to increase production of a pediatric cancer drug that is in dangerously low supply, according to a Washington Post report.

Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence Health, the system formed from Central DuPage Hospital and Delnor Hospital, has affiliated with Cleveland Clinic for adult medical oncology services, according to a Cadence Health news release.

Durham, N.C.-based Duke Medicine will soon open the $230 million Duke Cancer Center, according to a Chronicle report.

Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, part of Baylor Health Care System, is opening the $125 million Baylor Cancer Hospital, according to a health system news release.

The Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center in Havre, Mont., which is partnered with Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System, is ending its radiation oncology services, according to a Great Falls Tribune report.