Small dreams have no power to move hearts, and in a new six-year strategic plan, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is thinking very big. What would it take to drastically increase cure rates for childhood cancer worldwide? St. Jude’s answer: $11.5 billion and an additional 1,400 jobs. To get a rough sense of scale, work …

The complexity of cancer care and unwarranted variation in treatment can serve as a barrier to improving care quality. As a result, health systems are increasingly turning to clinical pathways as a way to provide standardized, high-quality care.   During a March 18 webinar hosted by Becker’s Hospital Review and sponsored by Elsevier, James Weese, MD, FACS, Vice …

Parking at some prestigious cancer centers can run into hundreds of dollars. The overlooked cost is finally drawing scrutiny from hospital administrators. For cancer patients, the road from diagnosis to survivorship feels like a never-ending parade of medical appointments: surgeries, blood work, chemotherapy, radiation treatments, scans. The routine is time-consuming and costly. So, when hospitals …

Congress is about to debate legislation—the Lower Drug Costs Now Act(H.R.3)—that would give Medicare the power to negotiate for lower drug prices. The bill focuses on lowering prices of drugs that treat a wide range of diseases including asthma, arthritis, and diabetes. But less well appreciated is the power of the proposal applied to cancer drugs. The …

On 12 July, she walked up to a manager at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, and said she felt unwell.  Shortly afterwards, she had a seizure on the floor. She was rushed to hospital and diagnosed with brain cancer.  She’s exactly the type of person you might expect to have supported a recent vote …