This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
 As 2015 comes to a close, ACS would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of The Brief a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 5.
|
Modern Healthcare
From Feb. 11: The onset of certain physical changes in patients with advanced cancer may signal that death is likely within three days, according to new research that could lead to improvements in the quality of care the patients receive at the very end stages of the disease.
Researchers identified eight changes, mainly neurological and neuromuscular, that were strong predictors of impending death.
READ MORE
Prostate Cancer News Today
From Feb. 25: In the United States, according to recent estimations, nearly 3 million men have prostate cancer, and approximately 233,000 patients are expected to be diagnosed in 2014. Prostate cancer accounts for 20 percent of all cancer survivors in the U.S., and although there are guidelines addressing prostate cancer screening and treatment, they still need to be structured to optimize the survivorship experience of patients who have been treated for this disease.
READ MORE
Healio
From Aug. 26: Stress hormones are released when the body responds to physical, mental or emotional pressures. These stress hormones — such as epinephrine and norepinephrine — increase blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucose levels.
Prior research suggests chronic stress may cause problems with the digestive system, as well as contribute to infertility, urinary issues and weakened immune systems. In addition, those with chronic stress are more susceptible to viral infections, headaches, sleep disturbances, depression and anxiety.
READ MORE
Cancer Therapy Advisor
From April 29: Older adults with limited life expectancy frequently receive colorectal cancer screening, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Mara A. Schonberg, M.D., M.P.H., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues examined CRC screening receipt according to age and LE in older adults in the United States.
READ MORE
 |
|
Enjoy our journals? There’s an app for those! Journals such as those from the American Cancer Society ™, Journal of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Science and more are now available for your iPad and iPhone. Sample issues and abstracts, as well as open articles, can be accessed for free. A subscription to the journal is required to read the full text.
|
|
Reuters
From Sept. 16: Pathway Genomics, a company known for pushing the boundaries of direct-to-consumer genetic testing, launched a cancer screening test designed to detect bits of cancer DNA in the blood of otherwise healthy people.
The test represents a first in the rapidly developing field of "liquid biopsies," which use gene sequencing technology to screen blood samples for trace amounts of DNA associated with different cancers.
READ MORE
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
From Feb. 18: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a new multi-payer payment and care delivery model to support better care coordination for cancer care as part of the department's ongoing efforts to improve the quality of care patients receive and spend health care dollars more wisely, contributing to healthier communities. The initiative will include 24-hour access to practitioners for beneficiaries undergoing treatment and an emphasis on coordinated, person-centered care, aimed at rewarding value of care, rather than volume.
READ MORE
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
From July 29: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is pleased for offer a pocket-sized version of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for antiemesis, melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer while supplies last. These printed versions of the NCCN Guidelines® are conveniently sized to fit in a lab coat pocket and serve as a valuable reference tool for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other oncology healthcare professionals.
READ MORE
The Washington Post
From June 17: Grace Silva and Karen Coakley are both 59, mothers living in the Boston suburbs and patients at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where they have spent years wrestling with daunting diagnoses.
While they have never met, the two women are connected in a way that goes beyond their similar stories and their struggles with cancer. They share an intimate and uncommon link, the sort of genetic bond possible only in an age of precision medicine.
READ MORE
Medical News Today
From Jan. 14: In a new study, researchers from the U.K. have discovered a novel gene that, when mutated, can drive development and progression of triple-negative breast cancer — an aggressive form of the disease that accounts for 10 percent to 20 percent of breast cancers.
READ MORE
Oncology Nurse Advisor
From Jan. 21: The founding of patient navigation is commonly attributed to Harold P. Freeman, MD, and his concerns of health care disparities, in particular, correlations between poverty, culture, social injustice, and disease outcomes. In 1990, Freeman created the first navigation program in Harlem, New York, which consisted of outreach community education and access to free mammography screening for low-income women paired with trained navigators who assisted women in traversing the health care system, eliminating barriers to care, and thereby improving the timeliness of care between abnormal finding, diagnostic resolution, and treatment initiation.
READ MORE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
