ROSEMARIE HENSON will join the American Cancer Society as senior vice president for prevention and early detection, effective January 2015.
MICHAEL BISHOP will receive the Daniel Nathans Memorial Award for his contributions to biomedical research from the Van Andel Research Institute.
SUSAN O'BRIEN will join UC Irvine Health as associate director for clinical science for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and medical director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1, 2015.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the recipients of its prizes in life sciences and fundamental physics, who will receive awards of $3 million.The recipients of the 2015 Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences are:
THE COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY ALLIANCE documented an 82 percent increase in cancer clinic closings and a 143 percent increase in consolidation into hospitals in a new report since its first in 2010, which reported on activity from 2008 to 2010.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY formed a clinical affairs department focused on to providing services, education, and resources to support oncology practices.
NANCY WEIGEL was named editor-in-chief of the Endocrine Society's journal Hormones and Cancer, beginning Jan. 1, 2015. Weigel is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine.
KATHLEEN GREEN was appointed associate director for basic sciences research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
NANCY HESSE was named chief nursing officer of Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
About eight million women ages 21 to 65 years have not been screened for cervical cancer in the past five years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than half of new cervical cancer cases occur among women who have never or rarely been screened.
