FRANK VRIONIS was named director of Boca Raton Regional Hospital’s Marcus Neuroscience Institute. He will assume his new duties on Oct. 1. Vrionis serves as chief of neurosurgery at the Moffitt Cancer Center, and professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and Oncology at the University of South Florida. During his 16-year tenure, he initiated a host of...
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.
