This message was sent to ##Email## May 2, 2019     Home  |   About   Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise   ACS committee opportunities The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Commission on Cancer (CoC) and Clinical Research Program (CRP) depend on volunteers from its diverse membership to drive the mission and initiatives of the organization and the surgical profession. Serving on a CoC or CRP committee is a great way to contribute to program initiatives, network with colleagues, advance into leadership positions and contribute to improvements in cancer patient care. The ACS Committee Opportunities web page includes information about those ACS committees, including the CoC and CRP, that are looking for new surgeon members to serve. Visit the ACS Committee Opportunities web page for details on what’s involved and how to apply. The deadline for applications is May 31, 2019. Register today for the 2019 ACS Quality and Safety Conference Registration for the 2019 ACS Quality and Safety Conference is now open. This year’s conference will be held in Washington, DC, July 19–22 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. For more information on the program agenda, meeting/events schedule, registration fees, lodging, transportation, preconference workshops and to review our official press release, please visit the Quality and Safety Conference website.    SERVICE SHOWCASE Advertisement Help Doctors Without Borders Today Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively recruiting general and trauma surgeons with experience in emergency obstetrics for international missions in developing countries. Learn more Cancer Programs staff on the road Make sure you meet the Cancer Programs staff at the Cancer Programs booth during the following conferences: American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBS), April 30–May 5 in Dallas National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA), May 19–22 in Denver ASCO Annual, May 31–June 4 in Chicago American Society for Colon and Rectal Surgeons, June 1–5 in Cleveland Please stop by and learn what’s new from the Cancer Programs.     .  SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Advertisement      CoC NEWS Upcoming important opportunity to provide feedback on revised CoC Standards The Commission on Cancer (CoC) is wrapping up its project to review, revise and enhance the CoC standards for accreditation. To ensure broad-based review and input by our constituent community, we will be presenting a draft that will be posted on the CoC website for public comment and feedback. An e-mail will be sent in mid-May to all of our currently accredited cancer program contacts with information on where to access the revised standards and how to submit feedback. This information will also be included in The Brief. The opportunity to provide feedback will be open for approximately two weeks. Please plan to participate, as your feedback is important to us and will be reviewed and considered as we finalize the standards for publication this fall. Participate in the CoC-sponsored survey on patient navigation As a member organization of the American Cancer Society National Navigation Roundtable, the Commission on Cancer (CoC) is partnering to administer this important survey of navigators (all types, including community, patient navigators, nurse and social work navigators) and program administrators to identify the challenges, successes and barriers to the implementation of cancer patient navigation metrics. The results of this survey will help to identify needed tools and resources for navigators and navigation programs in an effort to support their program. This survey will take 15 to 20 minutes of your time. Your feedback is extremely important, and your responses are completely anonymous. The survey is an open link, so please forward it to other appropriate individuals. The survey will close on June 7, 2019. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact national.navigation.roundtable@cancer.org.    SPONSORED CONTENT Advertisement Promoted by InformedDNA What’s Ahead for Precision Medicine? 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For additional information, please contact Amanda Francescatti.  NCDB NEWS RQRS and NCDB update The Rapid Quality Reporting System (RQRS) is accepting both v16 and v18. For National Cancer Database (NCDB) submissions: We recommend programs limit each file submission to 5,000 records. Programs should monitor their data submission using the NCDB Call for Data Submission Count Tracking by Diagnosis Year found on the Commission on Cancer Information for Registrars web page. 2018 radiation data items update When entering the phases information for the new radiation data items, the abbreviation for Posterior Axillary Boost is PAB.  HEALTH CARE NEWS AND UPDATES Research decodes one way cancer survives treatment, proposes a way to prevent it Mayo Clinic Cancer cells have various tricks up their metaphorical sleeves to survive in the face of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other cancer treatments. Now researchers at Mayo have decoded one of those tricks using cell lines and patient-derived cancer cells, and proposed a way to resensitize breast cancer cells to treatment.  READ MORE Treatment approaches key to outcomes among young women with breast cancer Healio Young women with breast cancer appeared to have more aggressive disease than women diagnosed at an older age but similar overall outcomes when the recommended treatment is given, according to results of two retrospective studies presented at European Society for Medical Oncology Breast Cancer Congress.  READ MORE .  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Remotely Operated Suction Irrigation System VTI’s Remotely Operated Suction Irrigation System (or “ROSI”) presents a new paradigm in suction and irrigation for robot-assisted procedures. The ROSI system gives the console surgeon complete control of suction and irrigation capabilities. Increased risk for mental health disorders seen with head and neck cancers Oncology Nurse Advisor The presence of cancer can impact a patient’s mental health, and in turn, prognosis can be influenced by a patient’s mental state.1,2 Results of a new study shed light on significant relationships between head and neck cancer diagnoses and mental health disorders. The study was a retrospective cohort analysis of the Truven Health MarketScan Commercial Claims and Encounters database records from 52,641 patients, conducted by researchers Ji Hyae Lee, BA, and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University, in Hershey.  READ MORE Patients and caregivers withhold cancer-related information Oncology Nursing News Patients with gynecologic cancer and their caregivers may claim that they tell their healthcare providers everything, but there are still some issues that go undiscussed, according to recent research conducted across multiple institutions and published in the Oncology Nursing Forum. Researchers conducted semi-structured phone interviews with 18 patients in treatment for their first appearance of ovarian, uterine, or endometrial cancer who were between treatment cycles 2 and 5, as well as 16 supporters (89% of participants were patient-supporter dyads).  READ MORE Rare form of breast cancer getting increased attention The San Diego Union-Tribune via Medical Xpress "Inflammatory breast cancer presents more with a reddening of the skin of the breast, a swelling of the skin of the breast, kind of a heaviness, sometimes a tenderness of the breast," said Dr. Thomas Buchholz, medical director of Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center. According to the National Cancer Institute, inflammatory breast cancer makes up somewhere between 1% and 5% of all invasive breast cancer cases. The American Cancer Society estimates there will be 268,600 such cases diagnosed in 2019, meaning that the disease will affect between 3,000 and 13,500 American women this year.  READ MORE Radiotherapy improves outcomes in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer Healio Women with hormone receptor-positive, low-risk breast cancer achieved significantly higher DFS rates with whole-breast irradiation as part of their postsurgical regimen, according to results from an Austrian trial with 10 years of follow-up presented at European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology Congress. The women, who underwent breast-conserving surgery followed by antihormonal treatment, also demonstrated better local control with vs. without whole-breast irradiation.  READ MORE  IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES Date Event April 1 NCDB Call for Data Opened April 30 - May 5 American Society of Breast Surgeons, Dallas, TX May 19-22 National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) Annual Conference May 31 ACS Committee Opportunities application deadline June 2 National Cancer Survivors Day June 5-7 AOSW Annual Conference, Tucson, AZ June 7 Deadline for CoC-Sponsored Survey on Patient Navigation June 30 NCDB Call for Data, Final Date for Initial Submissions and Corrections Due July 19-22 ACS Quality and Safety Conference, Washington, DC Oct. 1-31 National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Oct. 27-31 ACS Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA Nov. 21.22 Commission on Cancer Educational Summit, Rosemont, IL   The Brief Connect with AJCC Connect with CoC Connect with NAPBC Recent Issues | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version  Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469-420-2601 | Download media kit Ashley Harrington, Senior Content Editor, 469-420-2642 | Contribute news Disclaimer: The Brief is a digest of news selected for the American College of Surgeons Cancer Programs from thousands of sources by the editors of MultiBriefs, an independent organization that also manages and sells advertising. 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