CAROLYN BRITTEN was named director of the Hematology/Oncology Division at the Medical University of South Carolina. She will continue her role as associate director for clinical investigations at the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
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.
