ST. JUDE’S Department of Pathology received accreditation to the ISO15189 standard under an accreditation program through the College of American Pathologists. St. Jude is the first children’s hospital in the nation to be accredited under this program. The accreditation is based on the standard for laboratories’ technical competence, management, and improvement. It focuses on improved...
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.
