DANIEL DIETRICK was named chief value officer at Chesapeake Urology. His primary function is to oversee patient safety and healthcare quality. He will execute on the overall clinical vision and strategy of the organization, maintaining professional and quality control standards, and creating and overseeing processes to improve quality, efficiency, and cost effectiveness in Chesapeake Urology’s... […]
SOUTHERN RESEARCH was awarded a five-year Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity contract from NCI. This is to investigate the pharmacokinetic properties of antitumor and other therapeutic agents of interest to the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD) under NCI contract HHSN261201600021I. RFP number N02CM67000-11 was issued under full and open competition, which resulted in five IDIQ awards.... […]
NCCN has published the NCCN Guidelines for Patients and NCCN Quick Guide for Nausea and Vomiting. These patient resources—the first from NCCN to focus specifically on supportive care—are made available through funding from the NCCN Foundation. The patient resources for nausea and vomiting are available on NCCN.org, as well as on the new NCCN Patient... […]
GUARDANT HEALTH INC. and Northewestern University have entered into a comprehensive partnership that will make Guardant360 the preferred liquid biopsy test for patients with advanced cancer treated at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. The agreement also covers multiple large-scale prospective clinical trials that will apply Guardant Health’s technology to a... […]
CITY OF HOPE and Translational Genomics Research Institute will collaborate to enable both institutions to complement each other in common areas of research and patient care with the aim of making precision medicine a reality for its patients. TGen remains anArizona-based nonprofit with headquarters inPhoenix. As part of the agreement, TGen will join the City... […]
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER dedicated MSK Monmouth, a120,000-square-foot treatment center devoted to cancer care in Monmouth, NJ. With the launch Monmouth, outpatient surgery will be offered by MSK for the first time outside of Manhattan, including interventional procedures, excisional biopsies, breast conservation therapy (lumpectomy) for breast cancer, sentinel node biopsies, axillary node dissections, and... […]
DAVID TUVESON was named director of the NCI-designated Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center, taking over from Bruce Stillman who has served in that capacity for 25 years.
STEVEN LIBUTTI was appointed director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and will serve as Vice Chancellor for Cancer Programs for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences at Rutgers University.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY and the American Board of Internal Medicine will enable participants of ASCO’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) and the QOPI Certification Program (QCP) to receive Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Practice Assessment points from ABIM. The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Board of Internal Medicine will enable... […]
THE PRESIDENT’S CANCER PANEL released a report titled Improving Cancer-Related Outcomes with Connected Health. The report found that connected health has a significant potential to achieve three critical goals: Improve the experience of care for cancer patients and their caregivers Improve the experience of the oncology workforce in providing care, and Reduce the burden of... […]
