February 24, 2012
Scottsdale Healthcare steps up cancer services
Scottsdale Healthcare has bolstered its cancer-care offerings with a new bone-marrow transplant program that will serve patients receiving treatment for aggressive blood cancers. The new program at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Shea Medical Center will cater to patients who are battling blood cancers such as myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma… Mayo Clinic […]
Tags: blood cancers, bone-marrow transplant program, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale Shea Medical Center, Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center
February 1, 2012
Skin-cancer drug tested in Valley approved
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new drug studied in the Valley gives hope to patients with a type of advanced skin cancer — patients who, until now, had no other treatment options. The approval also marks the first time that a drug has received a federal green light after clinical trials performed […]
Tags: Dr. Aleksander Sekuliclater, oncology research, Scottsdale Healthcare, skin cancer, Translational Genomics Research Institute
January 24, 2012
Bioscience hub a benefit to all
Phoenix’s new mayor wants to create a second, larger bioscience campus around the Mayo Clinic Hospital. Scottsdale’s leaders should cheer him on. Sure, it would be better to see such a campus in Scottsdale, centered at Scottsdale Healthcare or the Mayo Clinic. Exciting things are happening at both organizations, including the creation of a medical […]
Tags: bioscience, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Mayo Clinic Hospital, Scottsdale Healthcare