SARAH THAYER was named the Merle M. Musselman Centennial Professor of Surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She was also named associate director for clinical affairs and physician-in-chief for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at UNMC.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
