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Patients who have a cancer diagnosis and also struggle to find the financial means to pay for needed oncology services tend to have worse outcomes, according to the Association of Community Cancer Centers. Connecting the dots for those patients is…

St. Louis-based Washington University School of Medicine researchers found radiation therapy can improve outcomes in patients with ventricular tachycardia.

A recent study found noninvasive ultrasound therapy could be a treatment option for some patients who cannot undergo surgical or transcatheter valve replacement.

Researchers at New York City's Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery uncovered why cancer cells spread to the spine three to five times more than other bones, The Washington Post reported Nov. 28. 

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened its $32 million cancer center.

Bryan Burt, MD, an internationally renowned surgeon-scientist and surgical oncologist, was named chief of thoracic surgery at UCLA Health.

The FDA is investigating several reports of T cell malignancies, lymphoma and other adverse events in clinical trial patients who reported previously receiving certain CAR-T cell immunotherapies for treatment.

Researchers at the NCH Rooney Heart Institute in Naples, Fla., are leaning on a new therapeutic treatment for "widow-maker" heart attacks: supersaturated oxygen therapy.

Continuing regular check-ups for some mothers into the "fourth-trimester" — the three month after giving birth —may help reduce cardiovascular-related deaths, a top indirect cause of maternal deaths, according to the American Heart Association.

The FDA published final guidelines for applicants submitting biologics license applications or new drug applications in its real-time oncology review pilot.