Novocure, an oncology company based in Portsmouth, N.H., announced today that its portable, noninvasive brain tumor device Optune will now be covered by Humana, which becomes the ninth commercial payer in the U.S. to issue a positive coverage policy for the treatment.

New research has uncovered a broad utilization gap between the lowest and highest hospital-based users of PET to detect cancer recurrence, with no gains in two-year survival to justify the procedure at the higher end of the usage range. 

Social media, and specifically Twitter, has become a ubiquitous and transformative communicative tool for sharing health information, and could help promote visibility and facilitate patient enrollment in clinical trials, according to a recent research letter published online March 3 in JAMA Oncology.

Just over half of current smokers who receive an abnormal chest CT exam adhere to radiologists’ recommendations for follow-up imaging within 30 days, according to results of a study published online Feb. 28 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology

The Great Lakes State is seeing rampant inconsistency statewide in the utilization of staging scans when women are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, and much of the variability owes to imaging orders that buck national guidelines.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), a leading international healthcare services and information technology company, announced today that it has signed definitive agreements to purchase Vantage Oncology, LLC, a leading national provider of radiation oncology, medical oncology and integrated cancer care, and Biologics, Inc., an oncology pharmacy services company.

The first multicenter study analyzing recurrence patterns following post-surgery treatments for pancreatic cancer has shown that adjuvant chemotherapy is a good way to go, as it thwarts both local and distant recurrence. By comparison, adjuvent chemoradiation beats back local recurrence but not metastasis, which translates to less impact on overall survival.

A radiotherapy technique normally used to treat cancer will be put to use in a unique way: sterilizing mosquitoes responsible for the spread of dengue fever.