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... […]
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.... […]
