In Brief

LUNGevity and CancerCare announced the launch of the LUNGevity Lung Cancer HELPLine, a free phone service through which a team of oncology social workers will be available to address the emotional, practical, and information needs of people diagnosed with lung cancer, their families, and caregivers.

Highlighting immunotherapy research from 2016, a white paper from the Institute for Clinical Immuno-Oncology founded by the Association of Community Cancer Centers isolated emerging policy issues and challenges that may impact the future of immune-oncology in practice.

Vinay Prasad, an assistant professor of medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine and member of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, noticed potential financial conflicts of interest among physicians on Twitter and realized the issue had never been formally studied.

Richard Goldberg, a gastrointestinal cancer expert, was named the new director of the WVU Cancer Institute.

Justin Klamerus was appointed to president of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Hospital, the clinical operation of Karmanos Cancer Institute.

Maria Werner-Wasik was named executive vice chair for radiation oncology integration and the Walter Curran Professor of Radiation Oncology.

Northwell Health announced collaboration with Indivumed to speed the advance of precision cancer research.

Tempus, a technology company focused on helping doctors personalize cancer care, and University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center joined together to improve research and healthcare by making genomic data, advanced molecular analysis and clinical decision support tools available to the hospital's researchers, physicians and healthcare providers.

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons released the first publicly accessible national report of outcomes from lobectomy, a lung cancer procedure that removes a portion of the lung.