Dr. Frederick Greene, our Consulting Medical Officer has leveraged his extensive surgical experience and his ongoing editorial experiences with the AJCC and CoC to drive several initiatives for CRStar - including the industry's first podcast focused on Cancer Registry.
The concepts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have appropriately become important goals for healthcare enterprises, corporate entities, professional organizations and academic institutions. It is important that these concepts are also being emphasized in professional schools, especially medical schools, where the future generations of physicians are being trained. Twenty-four medical schools throughout the nation will […]
Although node-positive solid tumor malignancies frequently mandate adjuvant chemotherapy usage, the debate regarding Stage II (node negative) colon cancer continues to be ongoing relating to this issue. Medical oncologists have a variety of differing views as to whether additional chemotherapy should be offered after colectomy. While nodal status is an important indicator that is captured […]
One of the exciting new initiatives being developed at my cancer program is the creation of a stand-alone radiation oncology center which will house a proton therapy unit. Although the concept of treating cancer with protons has been increasing over the last decade, there has been a paucity of these dedicated units throughout the United […]
Cancer is an elusive disease – one that can hide from our body’s immune defenses and even hijack those defenses for its own purposes. To battle the disease, systemic treatments have long relied on the twin cudgels of chemotherapy, to poison the cancer cells and radiation, to blast them to death. The treatments can be […]
Each year we frequently hear that a word, color, or child’s name is chosen as the leading example and most frequently used in each of these categories. It is certainly true that when it comes to “cancer theories” over the last two or three years, the term “microbiome” is the winner. The concept is that […]
