Baptist Health South Florida and the American Lung Association have partnered to raise awareness for lung cancer screenings through “Saved by the Scan,” a public service advertising campaign aimed at educating Americans about the low-dose CT scan available to those at high risk for the disease.
Mount Sinai Health System and BronxCare Health System have launched BronxCare Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care—a new comprehensive cancer facility in the Bronx.
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has received a $12.6 million Merit Extension Award from NCI, one of two Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation to earn the recognition.
Part two of the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer found that in 2019, the national patient economic burden associated with cancer care was $21.09 billion, made up of patient out-of-pocket costs of $16.22 billion and patient time costs—the value of time that patients spend traveling to and from, waiting for, and receiving care—of $4.87 billion.
Colleen A.F. Lawton and Lori J. Pierce were awarded the Gold Medal at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Six faculty members of Roswell Park’s Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine have received promotions, and one new faculty member was appointed:
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center At Keck Medicine of USC has established the Eileen McGeever Breast Cancer Survivorship Program.
Eric P. Winer was named director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven.
Katrina Goddard was named director of NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences.
Robert A. Winn, Association of American Cancer Institutes vice president/president-elect and director of VCU Massey Cancer Center, received the AACI Cancer Health Equity Award on October 20 during the 2021 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting.
