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AJMC
Ideally, the pursuit of a stronger health care system involves implementing care improvements that reduce health expenditures. A previous post described how the Oncology Care Model (OCM) attempts to establish incentives for such efforts in the realm of strengthening cancer care.
As part of the OCM, many practices are exploring the impact of opening cancer-centric urgent care or expanded-hours clinics to provide alternative access points for patients with cancer who present with acute symptoms. In addition to chemotherapy (and its side effects that can result in acute care needs 24/7/365), hospital admissions and, to some extent, emergency department visits, are significant drivers of cancer care outcomes and costs in the United States.
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Newsweek
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which comes with some now-familiar trappings: pink ribbons everywhere, survivor stories, requests for donations. For the obvious reason that it is extremely rare, male breast cancer is not at the top of the discussion points. But the risk exists, and many men don't know they can develop the disease. Here is what men should know.
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of at least 13 different types of cancer. Data from the United States Cancer Statistics for 2014 were used to assess incidence rates, and data from 2005 to 2014 were used to assess trends for cancers associated with overweight and obesity (adenocarcinoma of the esophagus; cancers of the breast (in postmenopausal women), colon and rectum, endometrium, gallbladder, gastric cardia, kidney, liver, ovary, pancreas, and thyroid; meningioma; and multiple myeloma) by sex, age, race/ethnicity, state, geographic region and cancer site.
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Cancer Therapy Advisor
The average cost of treating one patient with cancer may be more than $25,000 per 180-day treatment episode, with costs driven largely by antineoplastic agents and inpatient care, according to an article published in the Journal of Oncology Practice.
With the cost of cancer care expected to exceed $170 billion in the United States by 2020, increasing pressure is falling on oncologists to help reduce cancer treatment-associated expenses.
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Medical News Today
In the journal Cancer Cell, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, explain how they tested the molecule, called BAX Trigger Site Activator 1 (BTSA1), on acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells. They note that BTSA1 "promptly induces" a type of cell suicide called apoptosis "in AML cell lines and patient samples."
Apoptosis is an essential process through which the body rids itself of malfunctioning or unwanted cells. For example, as the embryo grows, apoptosis helps to trim excess tissue.
Some chemotherapy drugs activate apoptosis indirectly when they damage DNA in cancer cells.
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AJMC
Ensuring access to appropriate data and then using the information to improve health care outcomes remains an ongoing challenge — this was the conclusion drawn by panelists participating at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's (NCCN) Oncology Policy Summit on Redefining Quality Measurement in Oncology, held Sept. 25 in Washington, D.C.
The biggest challenge, the panelists said, was with gathering cutting-edge data. "We have limited access to data," said Andrew York, PharmD, JD, CMS. While CMS has created a registry of what it considers high-quality data, "feasibility is hard, and it's also hard for us to implement changes." There are practical and operational challenges.
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ACS
Registration is now open for the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2017, Oct. 22–26 in San Diego. Clinical Congress is one of the largest meetings of surgeons in the world and offers outstanding educational opportunities for every stage of your career. The theme of this year's conference is Do What's Right for the Patient.
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Novodiax is soon bringing to market 10-minute fast, sensitive and simple Immunoassay (IHC) kits for in vitro diagnostic use to address unmet needs in the intraoperative surgical oncology sector. Learn More
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ACS Cancer Programs
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) and the Commission on Cancer (CoC) encourage your program to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month and use it as an opportunity to display and publicize your accreditation status. To help you promote this event within your program and community, the NAPBC and the CoC have created a poster that you can download and print.
Access the poster as follows:
Centers solely accredited by the NAPBC: Use the link to the Marketing Resources website provided in your performance report cover letter.
Programs that are accredited by the CoC solely and/or both the CoC and NAPBC: Go to CoC Datalinks and click on Marketing CoC Accreditation.
Please let us know about your celebration by sending photos and event information to
Susan Rubin, Business Development Manager, ACS Cancer Programs.
Reuters
Eli Lilly and Co said its drug to treat non-small cell lung cancer failed to meet the main goal of improving overall survival in patients in a late-stage trial, sending its shares down about 3 percent.
The news comes as a blow to the drugmaker, which has suffered setbacks on two potential blockbuster treatments over the past year — the delay of a rheumatoid arthritis drug, and the failure of an experimental Alzheimer's treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had rejected Lilly's rheumatoid arthritis drug in April, while its Alzheimer's treatment failed a key trial in November.
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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.
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AJCC
Donna Gress, RHIT, CTR, of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has recorded a series of webinars developed for and delivered to the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) Education Training Coordinators (ETC). NPCR has agreed to share these recordings and handouts with the registrar community. These webinars provide information on the assignment of stage, clarification of classification criteria with procedure/treatment differences and special concerns and highlight:
- Exceptions for T, N and M
- When biopsy is considered clinical versus pathologic
- Review and examples of when to use blank versus X
- Details based on common questions related to the anatomic site
- Case scenario, sometimes highlighting missing or incomplete information
Click here to start reviewing the webinars.
Webinars are free. Continuing education (CE) hours were not pre-approved for these webinars.
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