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...
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.
