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June 5 marks the 29th Annual National Cancer Survivors Day, which brings cancer survivors together to show that there is life after receiving a diagnosis of cancer. The Commission on Cancer (CoC) and the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) encourage your program to observe this day and use it as an opportunity to display/promote your CoC and NAPBC accreditation status. To help you promote this event within your program and the community, the CoC and the NAPBC have developed a poster that you can download and print. Programs that hold CoC accreditation or have both CoC and NAPBC accreditations can access the poster by going to CoC Datalinks and clicking on Marketing Resources. For programs that are solely NAPBC accredited, please use the link to the Marketing Resources website provided in your performance report email notification. For more information, contact srubin@facs.org.
AJMC
With the skyrocketing costs of oncology care, it is imperative that the cancer care community develop a strategy to control costs, while providing high-quality, comprehensive care to patients diagnosed with cancer. Clinical pathways have been emphasized as a means to deliver efficient, quality care and to ensure better outcomes at lower costs. The Oncology Medical Home takes this to the next, more comprehensive, step of quantifying and improving quality and value in cancer care while lowering overall costs. Patients, providers, policy makers, payers and employers all agree that we must work together to curb the rising costs of cancer care while maintaining and promoting higher quality. This focus should encompass all aspects of the cancer care journey for patients and their family.
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers dedicated to quality, effectiveness and efficiency of cancer care, recently announced that University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center has been elected to institutional membership. NCCN now has 27 Member Institutions serving the needs of people with cancer throughout the United States.
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If you are a Cancer Liaison Physician, plan to join us at a special CoC-CLP Breakfast from 6:30–7:30 a.m. on
Monday, June 6 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago. To register, send your name and email address to clp@facs.org by May 20.
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The ASCO Post
The 2016 edition of the Commission on Cancer's accreditation standards manual clarifies and provides additional information in many areas and raises the bar for compliance in some, including psychosocial distress screening, survivorship care, data reporting and activities in prevention and screening.
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Medscape
A promising new imaging technique could show doctors within days whether or not their cancer medication is working, and it has been tested on a cancer patient in the U.K. for the first time.
Scientists at Addenbrooke's Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals, have started a trial using a new imaging technique to detect molecular changes inside cancer patients. The patients in the trial have a wide range of cancer types.
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Despite the fact that brain tumors have been historically difficult to treat, with many therapies failing in their trial stages, experts say that the future looks bright for immunotherapies and novel targeted approaches.
"We have so much knowledge about the biology of these tumors and a proliferation of different drugs and therapies that have been developed over the past few years are working in other cancers," Andrew S. Chi, head of Neuro-Oncology at NYU Langone's Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, told CURE. "We have to figure out how to get these drugs to work in brain cancers."
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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.
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Umea University via Medical Xpress
When cells divide, the proper balance between the four DNA building blocks is required in order for the DNA to be copied without the introduction of potentially harmful mutations. Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have now shown a connection between levels of DNA building blocks — dNTPs — and colon cancer. This discovery has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Medscape
Emerging data from clinical trials have shown that patients with rectal cancer who respond well to chemoradiation can avoid surgery, as well as a colostomy, and can instead be followed by a "watch-and-wait" approach, as previously reported by Medscape Medical News.
A new study, based on an analysis of a national database, indicates that use of watch-and-wait management for the treatment of rectal cancer in the United States has doubled in recent years.
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Medical News Today
A team of physicists and engineers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has created an optical biosensor for cancer detection using nanostructured metamaterials that are 1 million times more sensitive than previous versions, pointing the way toward an effective early detection system for cancer and other illnesses.
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The 2016 Commission on Cancer (CoC) Annual Conference provides a comprehensive look at CoC standards and the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) tools and resources. On June 1 and 2, the CoC Program: Pathway to Quality Cancer Care will focus on the CoC Standards and the value of various roles on the cancer committee, guiding participants toward a first-rate quality cancer care program. The NCDB Workshop: Utilizing the NCDB for Quality Improvement on June 3 will provide an in-depth look at the use of the NCDB tools as well as best practices to maximize your cancer program's data. Developed by CoC and NCDB staff and committee leadership, these programs address a cancer program's common questions and concerns regarding CoC standards and compliance as well as the skills and knowledge needed to lead quality improvement initiatives using NCDB tools.
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