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National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to educate your community about the National Colon Rectal Roundtable's 80% by 2018 movement. More than 690 organizations have committed to eliminating colorectal cancer as a major public health problem and are working toward the shared goal of reaching 80% screened for colorectal cancer by 2018. Take this month to learn about the 80% by 2018 and be involved.
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The American Journal of Managed Care
Most of us are now familiar with the oncology value models proposed by organizations like the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and others — but they are raising myriad practical questions for those on the frontlines of cancer care delivery. Unless these frameworks are implemented in the clinic, questions will remain with respect to their utility. But implementation of these tools may require educating not just the providers, but also patients and payers.
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Cure
When people go on a road trip, they often have a clear idea of what's going to happen. They have an itinerary of the activities and a map dictating how to get from point to point. When facing a cancer diagnosis, many people have no idea what comes next. For the past three decades, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship has been working to change that.
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Medical News Today
After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the U.S. It is estimated that around 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime, and this year alone, more than 220,000 men in the U.S. will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis.
While prostate cancer can be a serious condition, most men survive it. According to the American Cancer Society, the relative five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is almost 100 percent.
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May 13–14
Orlando, Florida
Join us May 13-14 at the B. Resort & Spa in Orlando for the NAPBC Best Practices Conference. This conference showcases successful processes and tools of NAPBC-accredited breast centers. Breast program leaders and care team members will share innovative and efficient methodologies that have been successfully implemented in accredited programs across the country. Attendees will receive tools for adoption of these best practices in their own centers.
Register today.
Medscape
Liquid biopsies — blood tests that can detect circulating tumor DNA — could help detect cancer more accurately, guide individualized therapy, and better monitor patients' progress during treatment if they live up to their promise, said experts speaking at the Future of Genomic Medicine IX.
However, it is early in the game, and researchers are still wrangling with specificity and identifying the most clinically relevant genetic variants to target.
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For the past 22 years, EduCare's mission has been to support Healthcare Professionals in educating breast cancer patients. We strive to offer products that are patient-friendly and up-to-date. Patient education increases compliance, reduces time constraints and promotes a partnership between patient and healthcare providers.
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Cerner Ambulatory Practice Management
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Specialty Practice Management is a complete front- and back-office solution that offers a rapid return on your investment and improved satisfaction among your staff. Practices with 10 or fewer providers turn to this comprehensive solution to manage self-pay accounts and eliminate the common mistakes that prevent or delay insurance reimbursement.
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ACS
The Commission on Cancer is hosting a paper competition for physicians in training to foster the importance of oncology research in support of its mission. Papers are due June 30.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
Cancer survivorship care plans (SCP) are designed to help clinicians and patients coordinate and communicate about post-cancer treatment healthcare needs, providing a record of the care a patient received, his or her disease characteristics, and follow-up plans that integrate available evidence-based standards of care, including surveillance and monitoring of potential late effects of treatment. Barriers to SCP implementation include competing time demands, cost and a lack of reimbursement, and a paucity of guidelines and systems to streamline the SCP process.
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Join us June 1–3 in Chicago (Rosemont) for a three-day event that shows how the CoC-accreditation process and the National Cancer Data Base tools are a pathway to quality. Registration for this conference opens soon. For additional information, please complete the mailing list request form.
ACS
By using the Commission on Cancer Eligibility Requirements and Standards as a guide and benchmarks, cancer programs gain an understanding the components of high-quality, multidisciplinary, patient-centered cancer care. This comprehensive, one-day seminar, April 1 in Denver, provides an overview of the CoC Standards and an introduction to the accreditation process.
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TIME
Women with breast cancer have more treatment options than in the past but there remains a lack of understanding over how some of these treatments compare with others over the long term. Beyond adding years to women's lives, physicians are also looking for ways to limit unnecessary treatment and improve their high quality of life. Now, a new study from the Duke Cancer Institute suggests that for certain women, double mastectomies — which are an increasingly popular choice for women with breast cancer — may not deliver the outcome some women expect.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
The prevalence of survivors of oropharyngeal cancer is rising in the United States, while the prevalence of oral cavity cancer survivors is declining, a study published in the journal Cancer has shown.
Although the incidence of oropharyngeal cancer and a subtype of oral cavity cancer is increasing in the United States, there have been limited data on the presumed increasing prevalence of survivors of these two head and neck cancers.
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The Times and Democrat
The Regional Medical Center has joined the Health Sciences South Carolina Surgical Quality Collaborative.
Funded by a $3.8 million grant from the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation, the collaborative will be used to improve surgical safety around the state. The project is led by HSSC and the South Carolina Hospital Association, alongside the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the Medical University of South Carolina Department of Surgery.
The goals of the program are to bring together a network of health systems, surgical leaders and other groups to set measurement and reporting standards to reduce post-operative complications and deaths among 15 high-risk, high-volume procedures, and aim to lower the cost of surgical care.
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MIT News
Cancer cells are notorious for their ability to divide uncontrollably and generate hordes of new tumor cells. Most of the fuel consumed by these rapidly proliferating cells is glucose, a type of sugar.
Scientists had believed that most of the cell mass that makes up new cells, including cancer cells, comes from that glucose. However, MIT biologists have now found, to their surprise, that the largest source for new cell material is amino acids, which cells consume in much smaller quantities.
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