Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center named Jonathan Zager, MD, physician of the year.

Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is a nonprofit health system with more than 200 sites of care. Having served patients in central Indiana for more than 60 years, the organization has deep ties to the areas it serves.

Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD, started his career in "the real Holland with the windmills, tulip fields and all that good stuff." But he left all of it behind in the late 1980s to complete his oncology training in the United States.

A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are considered children under the law has worried cancer patients who use in vitro fertilization to preserve their reproductive options, The Washington Post reported Feb. 25.

 Providence has confirmed a pathologist is no longer providing services at the system after finding "discrepancies" with their work. This comes as at least seven patients have reported their lab results were incorrectly reviewed by the same pathologist.

Los Angeles-based City of Hope launched its new mobile program — the first in the country to provide mobile comprehensive cancer prevention and screening services for 15 cancers.

There were around 134,395 cases of cancer that went undiagnosed in U.S. adults during the first 10 months of 2020 due to pandemic disruptions in screening and care, research published Feb. 22 in JAMA Oncology estimates.

HCA Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute in Nashville, Tenn., has introduced a model to monitor patients who received CAR-T cell therapy in an outpatient setting. 

The FDA recently approved the first tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL, therapy to treat advanced melanoma, and 27 institutions have so far been authorized to deliver the treatment. 

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine confirmed to Becker's that it filed applications with the state Feb. 15, seeking approval for a proposed $75 million expansion of its cancer center in Warrenville, Ill. 

Jonathan Uhr, MD, a medical researcher who expanded knowledge on antibodies and cancer treatments, died of prostate cancer on Feb. 15. He was 96, The Washington Post reported.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded funding to eight medical groups that will become part of its inaugural Cancer Screening Research Network, an effort to advance existing knowledge about emerging cancers, early detection and treatment, it announced Feb. 21.

The University of Cincinnati Cancer Center is the first site in the Midwest to launch a phase 2 clinical trial to test a pancreatic cancer vaccine.

Francisco Esteva, MD, PhD, was appointed chief of hematology and medical oncology at three hospitals.

There may be a new tool in the arsenal of the fight against cancer — more specifically, in the fight against HPV-caused cancers, which do not respond as well to traditional treatment methods like chemotherapy or radiation.

Boston-based Mass General Brigham Cancer is promoting three of its leaders, according to a memo shared with Becker's.

The days between a new cancer diagnosis and the next oncologist appointment are agonizing. This hard truth made one Florida hospital commit to act quicker.

Sam Yoon, MD, chief of the surgical oncology division at New York City-based Columbia University Irving Medical Center, is facing scrutiny after a blogger found concerns with the images and data published in many of his research papers, The New York Times reported Feb. 15.

Oncologists are reporting slightly higher rates of burnout at a time when other specialties have seen a decline. Leaders have offered reasons for the increase, but for Kettering Health, burnout has not been much of an issue.

The U.S. is projected to see more than 2 million new cancer diagnoses this year, marking a record high, according to estimates from the American Cancer Society. Arizona is estimated to see the largest jump in new cases relative to how many were reported in the state in 2020.