Almost half of all Medicare enrollees with cancer nearing end of life receive aggressive overtreatment as opposed to supportive palliative or hospice care, according to a study published Feb. 21 in JAMA Health Forum.
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Cancer patients saved more than 60 minutes per visit when text messaging was offered as an alternative to in-person immunotherapy check-ins, according to a study published Feb. 19 in NEJM Catalyst.
Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center's sixth president, Thomas Lynch, MD, stepped into the role in February 2020, at the same time COVID-19 was beginning to transform the healthcare industry.
The Providence Cancer Center at Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, part of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, will become the first hospital in Alaska to offer the targeted prostate cancer therapy, Pluvicto.
Despite major strides seen in prevention and screening initiatives, Black individuals in the U.S. are still more likely to die from cancer compared to white individuals, according to an American Cancer Society report published Feb. 20 in CA: A Cancer…
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Here are five recent donations given to cancer centers and health systems across the U.S.:
The University of Hawaii Cancer Center and The Queen's Health Systems, both based in Honolulu, have launched an integrative oncology partnership.
Cherokee Nation, the sovereign tribal government of the Cherokee people, has invested $16 million to expand cancer care across Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, has been named director of Tuscon-based University of Arizona Cancer Center. He will step into the role March 1 after having served as director of Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute since 2018.
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, has been named chair of pediatric oncology at Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.