Oncology

An outreach program at Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente Northern California more than doubled colorectal cancer screening rates in almost 20 years, from 37.4% in 2000 to 79.8% in 2019. The research, led by Douglas Corley, MD, PhD, Permanente Medical Group’s chief…

Coral Gables, Fla.-Baptist Health has filled two leadership roles at the Baptist Health Miami (Fla.) Cancer Institute. Michael Zinner, MD, CEO and executive medical director of Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute and Baptist Health Cancer Care has been named as…

Early-stage stomach cancer diagnoses increased by about 53% between 2004 and 2021, according to a study published May 3 in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and presented at the 2025 Digestive Disease Week annual meeting. Here are three notes on the study: Read…

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare has opened a new cancer center as a care partner of New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Through the care partnership, physicians at the Hartford HealthCare Fairfield Cancer Center will collaborate and consult with experts…

While breast cancer incidence increased between 2018 and 2022, mortality rates for women ages 20 to 49 declined significantly between 2010 and 2020, according to new research presented April 29 at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting. Researchers…

Facing federal funding uncertainty, a looming workforce shortage and an increasingly aging patient population, cancer center leaders in the U.S. remain undeterred. Their focus remains, as it has for decades, on one mission: to push cancer research and clinical care…

Traditionally, goals-of-care conversations are reserved for end-of-life care, but The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is changing that. MD Anderson launched the Center for Goal Concordant Care in 2020. It has one overarching goal, “to ensure we have…

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag has appointed Steven Grossman, MD, PhD, as executive medical director for the Hoag Family Cancer Institute. Dr. Grossman previously served as physician-in-chief and deputy director for cancer services at Los Angeles-based University of Southern California’s Norris…

Of all 11 prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute had the highest rate of nurses who patients said “always” communicated well between April 1, 2023, and March 31, 2024, according to CMS data published Feb. 19.  The…

Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, led by Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD, from the…