There was no formal consensus on either an outright ban on power morcellators or issuance of a “black box” warning label.
REP. HENRY WAXMAN received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The 340B Coalition.
MD Anderson Cancer Center's uninterrupted seven-year stretch as the top cancer hospital in the U.S. News & World Report rankings has come to an end.
LI MA and JEFFREY TYNER were named the recipients of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award.
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE received an “outstanding” distinction from NCI, which renewed its Cancer Center Support Grant and extended its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation, following an in-depth peer review. Roswell Park will receive $19 million with the core grant covering a five-year period.
Question: What's more expensive than proton beam radiation therapy?
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY has named 30 society members to receive the Fellow of ASTRO designation. The 2014 class will receive the recognition during an awards ceremony Sept. 16 at the society's annual meeting in San Francisco.
THE COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY ALLIANCE appointed new officers. Bruce Gould, of Northwest Georgia Oncology Centers in Marietta, Ga., was named president of COA.
JOHN CLEVELAND was named associate center director of basic science at Moffitt Cancer Center.
Current controversy over power morcellation points to the importance of multidisciplinary education and consultation, said Monica Bertagnolli, chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.
