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Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital Health Network is joining the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Care Collaborative, WXVU reported July 5.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center entered a strategic alliance July 6 with Turnstone Biologics, a biotechnology company developing immunotherapies to treat and cure solid tumors.

Flint, Mich.-based McLaren Proton Therapy Center is set to become the first in the world to offer patients proton therapy with Leo Cancer Care's upright treatment technology, it said in an email to Becker's on July 5.

Eight hospitals and health systems that have opened new heart clinics or launched new programs since April 25: 

Here are the top 10 cardiology stories Becker's covered in June: 

Cleveland Clinic performed the first-in-the-world full multi-organ transplant in September to treat a patient with pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of appendix cancer. 

Here are five recent cancer center donations Becker's has covered since April 20: 

The Nuvance Health Heart and Vascular Institute in Danbury, Conn., became an affiliate of Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute on June 30.

Only 19.6 percent of adults in the U.S. have high cardiovascular health, a study published June 29 in Circulation found.

A generation ago we spoke of cancer in hushed tones. We whispered about the suspected "Big C," diagnoses were kept secret, and that was that.