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Below are five cardiologists who recently joined new practices, stepped into new roles or retired.

Researchers at Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system have received $32.7 million for a trial to evaluate whether colonoscopy or stool-based testing is more effective at preventing colorectal cancer among older adults with a history of colon polyps. 

Boston-based Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center is launching a program dedicated to the needs of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ — the earliest form of breast cancer. 

Here are four cancer-related partnerships formed since Sept. 28.  

The American Cancer Society plans to partner with Howard University in Washington, D.C., and three other historically Black medical schools for its new Diversity in Cancer Research pilot program, according to an Oct. 7 WTOP report.

Four hospitals and health systems have recently opened specialty heart clinics or announced plans to do so. 

In 2018, the estimated cost of care for the 15 most common types of cancer in the U.S. was $156.2 billion, according to research published Oct. 6 in JAMA Network Open.

A lawsuit out of Florida is challenging Anthem's decision not to cover an air ambulance trip, despite the patient's physician deeming it medically necessary.

A new $17 million, 14,400-square-foot heart rhythm center is coming to Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. The new facility will be part of the medical center's freestanding heart hospital. 

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System is launching a cardiovascular program at Morristown Medical Center to treat severely clogged coronary arteries and other serious heart conditions, according to an Oct. 7 news release obtained by Becker's.