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The U.S. News & World Report's "2024-25 Best Hospitals for Cancer" ranked the top cancer centers in every state.
- July 24, 2024Source: OncLive
Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, Ensign Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), professor, pharmacology, deputy director, Yale Cancer Center; chief, Medical Oncology, director, Center for Thoracic Cancers, Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital; assistant dean, Translational Research, Yale School of Medicine, discusses the importance of consulting a multidisciplinary tumor board when making treatment decisions for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as well as the optimal treatment course for patients with stage III, EGFR-mutated disease.
- July 24, 2024
Drs. Barbara Burtness and Maryam Lustberg named Fellows of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Barbara Burtness, MD, Anthony N. Brady Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), Chief Translational Research Officer at Yale Cancer Center, and Chief of Head and Neck Cancers/Sarcoma, and Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Chief of Breast Medical Oncology, have been named Fellows of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO).
- July 23, 2024
Greco is one of eight Yale faculty members who currently are Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. This status is one of the highest honors in biomedical science.
- July 22, 2024
On July 21, 2024, Dr. Eric Winer interviewed Dr. Tracy Battaglia on Yale Cancer Answers.
- July 21, 2024Source: Hartford Courant
Bob Havens saw a lump on his left breast but thought it appeared because he had been trying to lose weight.
- July 19, 2024Source: Medical News Today
Dr. Melinda Irwin, deputy director of Yale Cancer Center and the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and associate dean of research at the Yale School of Public Health, who was also not involved in the study, told Medical News Today that the study’s results were “practice-changing,” notably because of how easy it can be to implement physical activity.
- July 18, 2024
Starting July 21, 2024 Dr. Eric P. Winer, the director of the Yale Cancer Center and President and Physician-in-Chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital, becomes the new host of the long-running Connecticut Public Radio show Yale Cancer Answers, airing weekly since 2006.
- July 18, 2024Source: European Medical Journal
The European Medical Journal (EMJ) interviews Mario Strazzabosco, MD, PhD, about developments in liver cancer treatment, the physician-patient relationship, and new discoveries in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA).
- July 18, 2024Source: Verywell.com
GLP-1 drugs may reduce the risk of certain obesity-associated cancers, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open last week.