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| ACS CANCER PROGRAMS UPDATES |
| Registration now open for CoC Educational Summit
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Registration is now open for the Commission on Cancer (CoC) Educational Summit, 2020: A Glimpse into the Future, on Thursday, November 21, 2019, in Rosemont, IL.
In 2020, the CoC will introduce accreditation standards that have undergone a significant change, focusing on the provision of high-quality and measurable care, and the National Cancer Database (NCDB) will migrate to a new data platform. Join us on November 21 for a full day of education focusing on the new CoC Standards.
Plan to stay for the half-day NCDB workshop on November 22 to learn how programs are performing concurrent abstracting and using NCDB tools to meet data submission and performance standards.
There are separate registration fees to attend each event. Register by October 7 to receive early-bird rates.
For more information on this event and hotel accommodations, visit the event website.
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| News from the ACS 2019 Quality and Safety Conference: Support crucial for well-being of family caregivers
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In her presentation at the recent American College of Surgeons (ACS) 2019 Quality and Safety Conference, Jerri Rosenfeld, LCSW, director of the Ken Hamilton Caregivers Center at Northern Westchester Hospital in New York, noted the importance of recognizing, supporting and involving family caregivers as part of the health care team for cancer patients.
In “Creating a Family Caregiving Center: A support and resource program for the family caregiver,” Ms. Rosenfeld discussed the ways her center supports the family members who care for patients after discharge, when responsibilities and isolation often increase. It can feel overwhelming to caregivers, who in turn may neglect their own health.
“This type of support program will bring both awareness of and support to those family caregivers who are caring for a loved one with cancer,” said Ms. Rosenfeld. “It provides a patient- and family-centered approach to care. When family caregivers feel heard, supported and educated, cancer patients truly have a team in the delivery of care.”
National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Chair Scott Kurtzman, MD, FACS, said that Ms. Rosenfeld’s presentation highlighted the importance of addressing the needs of caregivers who are often under a great deal of pressure.
“Cancer patients are concerned about the needs of the people who care for them and who may survive them,” said Dr. Kurtzman. “Addressing their emotional, spiritual and physical needs is critical to the overall approach to the cancer patient.”
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| American Cancer Society names Dr. William Cance chief medical and scientific officer
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William G. Cance, MD, FACS, has been selected as the American Cancer Society’s chief medical and scientific officer. Dr. Cance will lead the integration of ACS’ research and cancer control departments, unifying its intramural and extramural research; prevention and early detection; patient and caregiver support and service strategies; global cancer control; and health systems engagement programs.
Since 2016, Dr. Cance has served as deputy director and, more recently, interim director of the University of Arizona Comprehensive Cancer Center.
| The CAP posts revised cancer protocols
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The College of American Pathologists (CAP) has released 23 revised cancer protocols and two new cancer protocols, as well as two revised biomarker templates.
Highlights include:
- Most of the revisions are minor (formatting, minor corrections, or explanatory notes and clarifications).
- The CAP continues to separate the protocols to offer unique documents for biopsy, resection, or other separate procedures for easier use of the templates and for better understanding of their requirements for accreditation purposes.
- This release includes two new cancer reporting protocols with generic templates for reporting cancers in biopsy and resection specimens that are not applicable for a site-specific protocol.
- The Skin Melanoma protocol has been updated to reflect the revised World Health Organization (WHO) histologic types and revised margin and lymph node sections that allow for more concise reporting.
- Based on feedback from pathologists, the Breast Invasive and DCIS Resection protocols contain less restrictive requirements for reporting margin status.
These documents and a summary of changes can be found on the CAP website.
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| Don't miss these ACS Cancer Programs sessions at Clinical Congress 2019
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American College of Surgeons (ACS) Cancer Programs will offer a wide range of educational sessions at the ACS Clinical Congress 2019. Scheduled programming includes:
Sunday, October 27
- Designing and Running a Prospective Surgical Clinical Trial Didactic
Monday, October 28
- Panel Session: Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer
- Panel Session: Clinical Trials in Personalized Medicine in Oncology
Tuesday, October 29
- Special Interest Session: Cracking the Code to Clinical Trial Enrollment: How to Start and Who Can Help (full day drop-in session)
- Panel Session: Optimizing Outcomes of Rectal Cancer in 2019
- Panel Session: Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer: Latest Advances
- Panel Session: Management of the Nodal Basin in the Melanoma Patient
- Panel Session: Management of Peritoneal Malignancies: Emerging Data in Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) and Other Strategies
Wednesday, October 30
- Meet-the-Expert Session: Improving Outcomes in Bladder Cancer Surgery: Important Advances in Care
- Named Lecture: Pancreatic Cancer: Progress and Prospects
- Panel Session: What’s New in the Management of Pancreatic Cancer?
- Panel Session: Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Solid Tumors: Emerging Roles of the Surgeon
To learn more about ACS Cancer Programs while in San Francisco, visit ACS Central in the Exhibit Hall, Monday through Wednesday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
| NAPBC workshop adds best practice panel
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The NAPBC has added a best practices session to its Pursing Excellence through NAPBC Accreditation workshop on September 20 in Denver.
Best Practices: Challenges and Solutions will feature the following three speakers:
David Chi, MD, FACS, NAPBC contact at the Breast Center at Los Robles, Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks, CA, will discuss the Breast Cancer Journal Club program and how it can help centers fulfill NAPBC Standard 5.1.
Maureen Chung, MD, PhD, FACS, medical director, Southcoast Health Breast Care Program in Fall River, MA, will discuss weekly pathology/radiology correlation conferences, including the breast surgeons to enhance treatment discussion for patients with malignant and non-malignant diseases of the breast, NAPBC Standard 2.19.
Annette Hargadon, MSN, RNC-OB, CBCN, nurse navigator at the Comprehensive Breast Center and Cancer Program at Riddle Hospital/Main Line Health in Media, PA, will speak on NAPBC Standard 2.20, Survivorship Care Plans Using a Multidisciplinary Team.
Register today to learn more about these solutions and refresh your memory if you are up for reaccreditation in the near future.
| HEALTH CARE NEWS AND UPDATES |
Oncology Nurse Advisor
Men should be included in clinical trials of new breast cancer treatments, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
“Less than 1% of all breast cancer cases occur in men, but men are more likely to be diagnosed at an older age and have a more advanced stage of disease. As breast cancer in men is rare, they have typically not been included in clinical trials for breast cancer treatment,” according to an FDA news release.
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Yale University via Medical Xpress
Scientists have long searched for "driver" genes that fuel the progression of cancer, but existing technology has had a hard time separating mutations that are true drivers from others that are simply "passengers," not directly involved in spread of tumors
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Imperial College London via Phys.org
Tools that detect cancer in its early stages can increase patient survival and quality of life. However, cancer screening approaches often call for expensive equipment and trips to the clinic, which may not be feasible in rural or developing areas with little medical infrastructure.
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DGIST via Phys.org
Anti-cancer treatment is carried out in various ways such as through drugs and hyperthermia, radiation and surgery. Although drug treatment is the most commonly used method among them, it is difficult to deliver a desired amount accurately to a certain part of the body because it highly depends on the circulatory function.
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Medical News Today
Why does breast cancer sometimes recur after treatment? A new study suggests that in part, the answer may lie in the effect of adjuvant hormone therapy on some cancer cells. "For a long time scientists have debated whether hormone therapies — which are a very effective treatment and save millions of lives — work by killing breast cancer cells, or whether the drugs flip them into a dormant 'sleeper' state," says Luca Magnani, who is a principal research fellow in the Faculty of Medicine.
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University of California via Medical Xpress
Although the number of women being diagnosed and dying of ovarian cancer is declining, recurrence, drug resistance and mortality remain high for women with high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma, the most common form of epithelial ovarian cancer. A new study in the journal eLife by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers links changes in the gene for the protein focal adhesion kinase, or FAK, to the cancer's ability to survive chemotherapy.
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