City of Hope opened its largest outpatient facility among its network of 38 U.S. locations—Hope Plaza.
RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute, the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, have opened New Jersey’s first and only freestanding, fully comprehensive cancer hospital (The Cancer Letter, April 25, 2025).
Richard M. Goldberg, an expert in gastrointestinal cancer treatment and research, has joined Agenus as chief development officer.
Northwell Health Cancer Institute has appointed Sang Sim, a radiation oncologist, as vice chair of brachytherapy within the Department of Radiation Medicine.
Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan will be honored with the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship’s Public Service Leadership Award at the Igniting Hope Awards Reception held June 26, at the Morrow Hotel in Washington, DC.
Intermountain Health is now offering a national expansion of CAR-T cell therapy, bringing cancer care closer to patients in southern Utah and Nevada.
OncoHost, together with its partners Heidelberg University Hospital, European Institute of Oncology and Virgen Macarena University Hospital, announced on May 15 that the parties have been awarded a €2.5 million grant from the EIC Transition Program of Horizon Europe.
Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor of The Cancer Letter, was named a finalist for the 31st Annual NIHCM Awards in Research and Journalism for her series, “Multi-cancer detection tests fall short of their promises.”
The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission awarded over $18 million in grants aimed at accelerating cutting-edge stem cell and regenerative medicine research across Maryland.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that high doses of radiation cause growth in existing metastatic tumors that weren’t directly treated with radiation.
