In mid-October, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden asked to visit the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina to help raise awareness of the need for breast cancer screening, education, and treatment—particularly among underserved minority women.
Part two of the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer found that in 2019, the national patient economic burden associated with cancer care was $21.09 billion, made up of patient out-of-pocket costs of $16.22 billion and patient time costs—the value of time that patients spend traveling to and from, waiting for, and receiving care—of $4.87 billion.
Colleen A.F. Lawton and Lori J. Pierce were awarded the Gold Medal at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.
Six faculty members of Roswell Park’s Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine have received promotions, and one new faculty member was appointed:
Researchers have made tremendous progress in cancer prevention and treatment over the past few decades. As a result, the death rates for many common cancers are declining in the U.S.1 Unfortunately, not everyone is benefitting from these breakthroughs.
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center At Keck Medicine of USC has established the Eileen McGeever Breast Cancer Survivorship Program.
The Association of Community Cancer Centers has conducted a national multi-phase effort to provide guidance on key issues related to the optimization of care for patients diagnosed with stages III and IV NSCLC.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network published new NCCN Guidelines for Cervical Cancer: Poland Edition.
MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers reported that radiation therapy as monotherapy is a safe and effective noninvasive treatment for oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma.
People with liver cancer awaiting transplantation could benefit from non-invasive radiation treatments but are rarely given this therapy, according to a new analysis of U.S. national data.
