Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C.
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Last week, the University of San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center opened the Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building, a $275-million cancer center that will feature 120 exam rooms, 47 infusion bays, and more than a dozen imaging options.
Congratulations to Hollings Cancer Center! Researchers there have received a $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue research into the combination of the checkpoint drug nivolumab and ALT-803 to treat patients with lung cancer.
St. Elizabeth Healthcare has placed the final beam on its new $130 million cancer center! The five-story facility will bring advanced treatment to northern Kentucky for the first time in collaboration with the Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky.
In the June 2019 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center published research that suggests that cancer programs utilizing immunotherapy should establish multidisciplinary teams for coordinating the management of immunotherapy-related adverse events (irAEs).
At the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting, the Louisiana Oncology Society received the ASCO Jeffrey C Ward Affiliate Advocacy Award for advancing critical advocacy priorities that have translated into meaningful legislative victories. The Iowa Oncology Society and Washington State Medical Oncology Society were also recognized for their advocacy efforts in 2025 at the meeting, receiving second place awards.
