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In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 18, Gerard Nussbaum, director of technology for healthcare advisory firm Kurt Salmon, discussed the necessity, characteristics and best practices for world-class hospital oncology programs.

Marshall Medical Centers in Guntersville and Boaz, Ala., is planning an $8.6 million cancer center, according to a report by The Sand Mountain Reporter.

In a session titled “Building a Leading Neurosurgery and Spine Program,” at Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting on May 17 in Chicago, Casey Nolan, managing director of Healthcare Navigant, discussed the steps hospitals must take to construct a world-class neurosurgery…

Saint Louis University Hospital announced it will break ground on the first outpatient bone marrow transplant center in the region.

Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, N.C., has proposed a $60 million expansion to its cancer center, emergency department and surgical areas, according to a Burlington Times-News report.

Many primary care physicians are unaware of chemotherapy's long-term side effects that may affect cancer survivors under their care, according to a study conducted by Harvard Medical School and reported by U.S. News & World Report.

Cleveland Clinic announced the opening of a new infusion suite at Medina (Ohio) Hospital.

Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network has partnered with The Wistar Institute, a biomedical research group in Philadelphia, to advance cancer research, according to a Morning Call report.

Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has broken ground on a $100 million expansion of its Cooper Cancer Institute, according to a Courier Post report.

Here are 10 statistics on pediatric cancer hospitalizations in 2009, according to the latest statistical brief issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.