A report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommends that HHS and other federal agencies form an independent organization that would rely on complex adaptive sysytems to direct cancer control in the U.S.
After a 23 year-old patient at MD Anderson Cancer Center died from complications stemming from a platelet transfusion that was contaminated with gram negative coccobacilli, hospital officials are revising internal protocols to demonstrate compliance with federal regulations.
City of Hope is building a $1 billion cancer campus, located on a former air force base in the Great Park neighborhood of Orange County, CA.
Before 2019, Blythe Adamson, a senior quantitative scientist at Flatiron Health, had never attended an annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
The FDA Oncology Center of Excellence announced a pilot program to help physicians get access to unapproved therapies for patients with cancer.
The mCODE initiative, developed by American Society of Clinical Oncology and its partners, aims to optimize electronic health records to answer research questions on drug efficacy and patient outcomes.
Project ECHO, a service that provides physicians in rural areas with access to multidisciplinary expertise, will soon announce partnerships with four cancer centers—Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Yale Cancer Center.
As the team lead by surgeon Stephen Chagares prepared a protocol for robotically-assisted mastectomy, the Institutional Review Board at Monmouth Medical Center provided guidance “every step of the way,” said Nicholas Fotopoulos, a research coordinator and an undergraduate at Princeton University in his sophomore year.
When NCI renewed the Comprehensive Cancer Center designation for Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, it also acknowledged that the institution's catchment area now covers the entire state of New Jersey, having expanded from roughly three counties around its home location of New Brunswick.
Georgetown’s Weiner and Hackensack’s Pecora tell us how they created a consortium spanning 233 miles
Georgetown's Louis M. Weiner and Hackensack's Andrew L. Pecora started to discuss forming a consortium in 2011, roughly at the time when it became clear that conferencing and data transfer technologies were making it possible for cancer centers located hundreds of miles apart to operate in a coordinated manner.
