VICTORIA SEEWALDT was named the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Population Sciences at City of Hope. Seewaldt will also serve as the associate director of the comprehensive cancer center. Previously, she was a professor of medicine at Duke University and leader of the Comprehensive Cancer Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program. She also founded the institution’s community...
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
