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Oncology group announces new Fresno cancer center : thebusinessjournal





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Oncology group announces new Fresno cancer center

Oncology group announces new Fresno cancer center
Oncology group announces new Fresno cancer center
Oncology group announces new Fresno cancer centerDetails Published on 08/18/2016 - 12:39 pm Written by Business Journal StaffCalifornia Cancer Associates for Research and Excellence (cCARE), California's largest independent group of cancer and hematology doctors, has announced plans to develop a 65,000-square-foot cancer center with Saint Agnes Medical Center on its Fresno campus.The comprehensive outpatient center will offer cancer care and hematology services that include radiation therapy, a high-complexity medical lab, chemotherapy, imaging and a physician dispensing program for oral oncology drugs.cCARE, which boasts more clinical trials than some academic medical centers, expects the new center to be the largest and most advanced of its kind managed by a private medical practice in California's Central Valley.Planning between cCARE and Saint Agnes has been underway for months and builds upon an existing relationship between the two entities.


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Thousands of cases of thyroid cancer could be misdiagnosed as a result of new technology

Thousands of cases of thyroid cancer could be misdiagnosed as a result of new technology
Thousands of cases of thyroid cancer could be misdiagnosed as a result of new technology
There are 3,400 new cases of thyroid cancer in the UK each yearHighest rates of misdiagnosis come from US, Italy and FranceA reported epidemic of thyroid cancer in rich countries is in fact mainly due to overdiagnosis driven by new technologies, the UN's cancer research agency said Thursday.Hundreds of thousands of the thyroid cancer cases diagnosed in recent decades are, instead, tumours that are "very unlikely" to cause any symptoms or death, according to findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.Experts from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and Italy's Aviano National Cancer Institute combed through data collected by the UN agency from 12 high-income countries - eight in Europe, along with the United States, Japan, South Korea and Australia.A reported epidemic of thyroid cancer in rich countries is in fact mainly due to overdiagnosis driven by new technologies, the UN's cancer research agency saidStarting in the 1980s, the highest rates of overdiagnosis occurred in the US, Italy and France, they found.


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Saint Agnes to expand cancer center, Community plans for new one

Saint Agnes to expand cancer center, Community plans for new one
Saint Agnes to expand cancer center, Community plans for new one
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