An interview with Amy Reed, formerly an anesthesiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Hooman Noorchashm, formerly a cardiothoracic surgeon at Brigham & Women's Hospital.Debate Over Brigham's Containment Bag StudyFDA's other option is to mandate creation of a post-market surveillance study combining power morcellators with a containment system or bag, which would be used to prevent the dissemination of any tissue, benign or malignant.
Here is what we know: A surgical device used to perform about 100,000 hysterectomies and myomectomies every year in the U.S. has been shown to spread cells from undetected or missed uterine cancers—rapidly upstaging the disease.
MARK GILBERT was named chief of the Neuro-Oncology Branch at the NIH, within the Center for Cancer Research of NCI.
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY launched a program to fund research projects focused on myeloid diseases, such as myelodysplastic syndromes and myeloproliferative neoplasms, both of which can progress to acute myeloid leukemia.
MERIDIAN HEALTH and Hackensack University Health Network agreed to enter into discussions to merge the health systems that will result in one, integrated health care delivery system.
CITY OF HOPE launched an institute focused on treating blood and bone marrow diseases: the Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY endorsed a guideline published by the American Urological Association and the American Society for Radiation Oncology on the use of adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy after prostatectomy. The endorsement was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
APTOSE BIOSCIENCES Inc. joined the Beat AML collaboration, developed by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University.
LAURA BROD was named CEO of GeneSegues Therapeutics. Brod is an at-large member of the University of Minnesota Board of Regents and is chair of the university's Audit Committee. She was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2002 to 2010, during which time she served as assistant majority leader.
RONAN SWORDS received the Pap Corps Endowed Professorship in Leukemia at the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Swords is assistant professor of medicine and director of the Leukemia Program at Sylvester.
