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Here are eight moves from leading cancer centers across the nation that Becker's has covered since March 28: 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Indianapolis-based Community Health Network entered a partnership April 28 to create Community Health Network MD Anderson Cancer Center. 

Kentucky has the highest cancer death rate per 100,000 in the U.S., according to a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

Boone, N.C.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare System plans to open a heart and vascular clinic May 3 at Ashe Memorial Hospital in Jefferson, N.C. 

Interventional cardiologists and a cardiothoracic surgeon at Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Heart and Vascular Institute performed the region’s first successful transcatheter replacement of a native mitral valve, the center said in an April 26 email to Becker's. 

Between 2017 and 2021, 602 heart transplants were performed at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai's Smidt Heart Institute, more adult heart transplants than at any other U.S. program, according to the center's annual report released last week.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center researchers developed a radiomic model to predict patients who may experience poor lung cancer outcomes. 

Here are five hospitals and health systems that have opened new cancer facilities or shared plans to open new centers since April 12: 

NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., launched an interventional cardiology program and opened a catheterization lab April 25. 

Daily use of low-dose aspirin is no longer recommended for the prevention of heart attacks in adults 60 and older, according to an independent panel of U.S. experts in primary care and prevention.