St. Joseph's Health and Hackensack Meridian Health opened a new cancer center in Totowa, N.J., on May 25.

Baltimore-based Sinai Hospital broke ground on its $95 million cancer center, Baltimore Business Journal reported May 24.

Augusta-based Georgia Cancer Center and Augusta University are tackling skin cancer rates by installing sunscreen dispensers across the university's campus, Jagwire reported May 22.

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New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center received a $40 million gift from Henry Kravis in honor of his wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, vice chair of the MSK board of trustees.

Researchers from the University of California San Francisco found that 21 percent of oncology physicians left patient care in the last seven years.

Experts at Philadelphia-based Temple Health have developed an approach to boost rates of lung cancer screenings in a low-socioeconomic area of the city leaning on specific marketing and messaging tactics. 

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Most cancers are seeing decreased mortality rates, according to a study led by the American Cancer Society, but two in particular are rising: lung cancer in women and liver cancer in men.

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston received $5.7 million in funding from the Break Through Cancer foundation to support in-depth research into eradicating an aggressive type of skin cancer — acute myeloid leukemia — according to a May 16 news release.

Finding another oncology leader more focused on his team and collaboration than William Tse, MD, division director of hematology and oncology at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, could prove difficult.

President Biden will nominate Monica Bertagnolli, MD, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

Pharmacy benefit managers are pushing policies called "white bagging" in cancer care, arrangements that could lead to increased spending, drug waste and worse patient outcomes, Debra Patt, MD, PhD, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist and executive vice president of Dallas-based Texas Oncology, wrote in a May 14 op-ed for the Austin American-Statesman.

Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina researchers found mailing human papillomavirus self-collection tests to under-screened, low-income women nearly doubles the number of screenings completed.

A small, phase 1 study found promising results for a pancreatic cancer vaccine.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine received a $35 million gift from Theodore Giovanis, a researcher, philanthropist and race car driver.

Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia will now offer patients a new radiation technique known as "cone-beam computed tomography-based adaptive radiation therapy," according to a May 10 news release.

Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center researchers found telehealth consistently outperformed in-person visits for access to care and provider response.

Early detection for some cancers can come up to three years before a traditional diagnosis with the aid of artificial intelligence, researchers have found according to a May 8 news release from Harvard Medical School.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is lowering the age recommendation for breast cancer screening for women with an average risk.