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Updates to outpatient care at Massey due to COVID-19
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At VCU Massey Cancer Center we have implemented changes in our clinics to mitigate the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation and keep our patients and medical teams safe.
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Mary Helen Hackney appointed medical director of community oncology
Mary Helen Hackney, M.D., M.S., FACP, has been named medical director of community oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU School of Medicine. She is an associate professor and the director of quality improvement in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine.
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Masey Ross named medical director of clinical research affiliations
Masey Ross, M.D., M.S., has been appointed medical director of clinical research affiliations at VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU School of Medicine. She is also the medical director of Massey’s Integrative Health Program and an assistant professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine.
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Clinical trials offer promising new cervical cancer treatment options
Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Finding effective therapies requires clinical trials, which can offer new options when other treatments have failed.
Leslie Randall, M.D., director of gynecologic oncology and a researcher at VCU Massey Cancer Center, discusses cervical cancer treatment, advances and current clinical trials underway at VCU Massey Cancer Center.
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VCU Massey Cancer Center and Riverside Health System collaborate to expand access to cancer clinical trials throughout coastal Virginia
Cancer patients living in coastal Virginia have greater access to cutting-edge clinical trials now that Riverside Health System has joined Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center’s Clinical Research Affiliate Network. This collaboration will bring National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored clinical trials testing promising new cancer treatments to seven Riverside locations, including Peninsula Cancer Institute locations in Newport News, Williamsburg and Gloucester; Cancer Specialists of Tidewater locations in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk; and Riverside Shore Cancer Center in Onancock.
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Massey researcher finds total deaths recorded during the pandemic far exceed those attributed to COVID-19
For every two deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S., a third American dies as a result of the pandemic, according to study findings from Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that deaths between March 1 and August 1 increased 20% compared to previous years — maybe not surprising in a pandemic. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only accounted for 67% of those deaths.
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