LISA KACHNIC, chair of the Department of Radiation Ocology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was elected president of the American Board of Radiology, succeeding Milton Guiberteau. Kachnic heads the Radiation Oncology service at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center with a personal research focus on optimizing sphincter-preserving chemoradiation therapy for locally advanced anal cancer. In a national trial...
More than a year after a catastrophic shortage of platinum-based chemotherapy drugs swept through the U.S., FDA on June 28 officially removed carboplatin and cisplatin from the drug shortage list.
