CARMEN SOLÓRZANO was named chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Solórzano is a professor of Surgery and director of the Endocrine Surgery Center.
FDA granted accelerated approval to a combination of Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the treatment of patients with BRAF V600 wild-type and BRAF V600 mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma.
MINESH MEHTA joined Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida as deputy director and chief of radiation oncology.
In an unprecedented move, 69 NCI-designated cancer centers have come together to advocate for HPV vaccination as a preventive measure against many HPV-related cancers.
This series re-examines the concurrent controversies at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and MD Anderson Cancer Center. This examination is possible in part because of new insight provided by Alfred Gilman, the Nobel laureate who served as the first scientific director of the state institution that distributes $300 million a year. Gilman died on Dec. 23, 2015.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL's Health Care Initiative launched the Precision Trials Challenge, a competition to bring precision diagnostics and therapies to market more quickly.
UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH selected e+CancerCare, a national operator of outpatient cancer care centers, to operate the UC San Diego Health - Chula Vista radiation oncology facility.
Over the past century, we have had many wars on cancer, and now we have a national “moonshot” to be spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden, announced in President Barack Obama's Jan. 12 State of the Union Address.
The text of Vice President Joe Biden's Jan. 19 remarks at a World Economic Forum meeting of international cancer experts in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, follows:
The Obama administration will find the money to create a comprehensive oncology bioinformatics system, Vice President Joe Biden pledged Jan. 19 at a meeting of international cancer experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.
