Wasif Saif
Matthew Weiss
Louis Potters
The Northwell Health Cancer Institute has revamped its clinical leadership structure as part of an expansion of services, appointing three deputy physicians-in-chief to lead medical, surgical and radiation oncology across the 23-hospital health system.
By law, the Food and Drug Administration is required to determine whether a drug, device, biologic, or medical device is “safe and effective.” But the FDA determination does not control whether the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pay for it. To satisfy CMS, medical products and services must be “reasonable and necessary,” meaning...
As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,...
