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.
Shimon SakaguchiFred RamsdellAlexander RudenskyThree immunology researchers shared the 2017 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis "for their discoveries relating to regulatory T cells, which counteract harmful immune reactions in arthritis and other autoimmune diseases."
Gustavo Leone was named director of the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center. His appointment begins March 1.
Levine Cancer Institute was named a “Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Organization,” making it the only cancer network worldwide to earn Planetree designation, the highest achievement in patient-centered care.
Martin Edelman joined Fox Chase Cancer Center as chair of the Department of Hematology/Oncology.
Diane Simeone will join the NYU Langone Medical Center's Perlmutter Cancer Center March 1 to serve as associate director for translational research and to lead its newly established pancreatic cancer center. Simeone is the director of the gastrointestinal oncology program at University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Mario Contreraz was named administrator of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center's Clinical Trials Office.
Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian and The Life Raft Group, a patient advocacy organization specializing in gastrointestinal stromal tumors cancer, entered into a collaborative research project to investigate the efficacy of a novel system biology approach for identifying the best treatment options for patients with advanced GIST.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published the NCCN Guidelines for Patients and NCCN Quick Guide sheets for Brain Cancer – Gliomas—the first in a series of patient education resources focused on brain cancer.
