THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA became the first Ivy League institution to implement a tobacco-free campus policy and was among 20 institutions of higher learning to receive grants as part of the Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative. The $3.6 million multi-year program is an initiative by the American Cancer Society and the CVS Health Foundation. Over the... […]
THE COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology released an evidence-based clinical practice guideline on human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) testing for patients with gastroesophageal cancers. The guideline provides recommendations about appropriate HER2 testing for patients at key decision points throughout their cancer... […]
CEDARS-SINAI added a treatment center offering radiation oncology therapies less than a mile from the hospital campus. The center will be a collaboration with Integrated Oncology Network, LLC. The 8,500-square-foot facility, at 8929 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, will be fully integrated into the Cedars-Sinai medical record system making available lab tests, X-rays and reports.... […]
MICHAEL DIEFENBACH, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research scientist and Northwell Health director of Behavioral Research in the Department of Medicine and Urology, demonstrated an app to help with decision-making for prostate cancer treatment. Prostate cancer patients face a variety of treatment options ranging from immediate surgery and/or radiation to health care professionals observing the... […]
MD ANDERSON Cancer Center established the Beau Biden Chair for Brain Cancer Research. The endowed chair, which was announced during a presentation to Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden during MD Anderson’s 75th Anniversary Gala, is in memory of Biden’s late son Beau, who was treated at MD Anderson. A recipient of the Biden... […]
FELIPE SUERO joined the Department of Anesthesiology at Fox Chase Cancer Center as an attending anesthesiologist. Suero comes to Fox Chase from Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, where he practiced as an attending anesthesiologist for cardiac and general surgeries for ten years. Suero has served as a general practitioner in the Spanish navy and a walk-in clinic... […]
ELISABETH HEATH, of Karmanos Cancer Institute, was presented with the Michigan Cancer Consortium’s inaugural Champion Award for 2016 for her efforts in curbing cancer. Heath has been with Karmanos Cancer Institute since 2003, appointed director of Prostate Cancer Research in 2010, and became a full professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2013.... […]
CRAIG REYNOLDS will retire from his job as director of the NCI Office of Scientific Operations at Frederick, MD. His retirement is effective Dec. 2. Kristin Komschlies, the current deputy director at OSO, was named acting director. NCI will conduct a national search for a permanent successor “Since 2002, [Reynolds] has played a key role... […]
WILLIAM CANCE joined the University of Arizona Cancer Center as deputy director and will lead the efforts in Phoenix at the UA Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. He is a surgical oncologist who treats patients with complex gastrointestinal and endocrine cancers. He has a particular focus on the diagnosis... […]
CHARLES DRAKE joined New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center as director of genitourinary oncology and associate director for clinical research at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of Columbia’s Cancer Immunotherapy Program. Drake is a physician-scientist with a Ph.D. in immunology, whose work focuses on understanding and fighting advanced-stage cancers with the immune system.... […]
