Sonali M. Smith, an expert in the treatment of lymphoma, was named chief of the Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago Medicine and the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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.
