For over 70 years, Ochsner has been dedicated to cancer research and new cancer treatment development, bringing innovations to the fight against cancer— including more clinical trials than anywhere else in the Gulf South region. Ochsner provides cancer services for adult and pediatric cancer patients and their families from diagnosis through recovery, including the most complex and difficult to treat cancers.
July 12, 2024
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The HHS competition evaluated the effectiveness of Ochsner Connected MOM in increasing blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
May 10, 2022
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Jonathan Mizrahi, MD, discusses updates from the meeting in pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma, the growing role of immunotherapy in GI cancer, and the ‘watch and wait’ protocol seen in rectal cancer
February 11, 2022
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Laura Finn, MD, provides a deep dive into pivotal data with combinations and novel agents that have changed the paradigm for patients with newly diagnosed, early relapsed, and late relapsed multiple myeloma.
January 19, 2022
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John Cole, MD, discusses the next steps with tucatinib in HER2-positive breast cancer.
January 17, 2022
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Laura Finn, MD, discusses the utility of belantamab mafodotin-blmf in late relapsed multiple myeloma.
August 16, 2021
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Data that emerged from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting represent potential paradigm shifts for patients with advanced melanoma.
September 29, 2020
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The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medical Center is celebrating its grand re-opening today after the completion of a $56 million expansion, which began in 2018.
February 21, 2020
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If clinicians can identify complications earlier and take appropriate prophylactic or therapeutic measures, treatment plan adherence and outcomes may be improved for patients with head and neck cancer.
September 16, 2019
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Ochsner Cancer Institute (Ochsner), along with its Gulf South NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) partners, has been awarded a $13.6 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to expand the successful statewide clinical trials network with a special emphasis on minority and underserved cancer patients.
August 23, 2019
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The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center at Ochsner Medical Center (Benson Cancer Center) has again been granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation from The Commission on Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons.