Fox Chase Cancer Center News

PHILADELPHIA (June 26, 2018) – For the  fifth consecutive time, the Nursing Department at Fox Chase Cancer Center has successfully achieved its Magnet^®designation for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Fox Chase has held Magnet status continuously since 2000, when it became the first hospital in Pennsylvania to earn it. 

Located on the campus of Suburban Community Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center East Norriton – Hospital Outpatient Center offers patients access to Fox Chase’s specialized team of surgical oncologists, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists, allowing individuals to be treated closer to home.

At Fox Chase Cancer Center, we have an incredible crew of oncology nurses — more than 530 strong. Oncology nurses care for patients through the most intimate and difficult moments of their lives, but they’re also right there to share in patients’ joys. We take pride in all of our nurses and are grateful for their commitment to this organization. So, to celebrate, deserving Fox Chase nursing staff members were nominated for a number of achievement awards. Check out the winners!

PHILADELPHIA (June 14, 2018) — On June 4, 2018, the Fox Chase Immersion Science Program (ISP) hosted a day-long symposium where 236 students from 6 area high schools presented data they spent the school year gathering. The research projects all focused on the effects of different dietary chemicals on fruit flies to identify foods that may interfere with targeted cancer treatments

PHILADELPHIA (June 14, 2018) – The more patients a center treated each year, the higher the patients’ rates of overall survival were. Those who received treatment at a facility that saw 20 similar patients per year had an 18 percent higher chance of surviving to one year after diagnosis than those treated in a facility that saw only five such patients per year. 

PHILADELPHIA (June 12, 2018) — Fox Chase Cancer Center will celebrate the opening of its new outpatient oncology facility in East Norriton, Pennsylvania with a ribbon cutting ceremony and reception on June 15.

PHILADELPHIA (June 5, 2018) – Jennifer Barsky Reese, PhD, assistant professor in the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was selected by the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH) to join the second cohort of the Putnam Scholars Program.

 In addition to their duties caring for patients, many Fox Chase Cancer Center staff volunteer their time to those most in need. Recently, two nurses and a doctor made a volunteer medical trip to Haiti, where they provided an array of medical services to those in desperate need of care.