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AMCCBS Virtual sessions on Thursday, March 4, will focus on practical strategies for better managing your organization. There is no specific roadmap to success for your cancer program or practice, but AMCCBS Virtual can help by hosting sessions that will share new perspectives and ideas for expanding your service line portfolio to better meet the needs of your patients.
Genetic screening and testing are paving the way for improved patient care and outcomes on a broad scale that encompasses both cancer treatment and prevention. Access to this testing is key to identifying and thereby reducing disease burden, suffering, and cost.
As you know, Seattle has been in the thick of the COVID-19 outbreak since late February, and we stood up our Incident Command System then. The situation here got very difficult, very quickly. Some of the many challenges my hospital and health- care system faced included limited personal protective equipment, intensive care units rapidly reaching capacity, and postponing or delaying …
Today, genetic counseling is a key service along the entire cancer care continuum, from prevention to screening to treatment and into survivorship.
For resources on COVID-19 as it applies to the oncology community, please visit ACCC’s continually updated Coronavirus Resource page. ACCC members can also access ACCCExchange, a listserv that allows them to communicate in real time with their colleagues about how the COVID-19 virus is affecting their communities and their patients. As COVID-19 spreads across the U.S., not everyone will get sick. …
Eyes on Cancer provides a 20-minute online educational video about the different types of skin cancer with photos of each kind, a melanoma lesion photo reference card within the video, and an online 35-question post-test. When finished, hairdressers can print and display a certificate of completion in their salon.
In 2013—the first year that St. Elizabeth Healthcare offered low-dose CT scans to Kentucky residents to detect possible signs of lung cancer—seven people were tested. In 2014, that number rose to 250 people, and in 2015, 700 people were scanned. But the oncologists at St. Elizabeth—located in Edgewood, Kentucky—knew that that wasn’t enough. Michael Gieske, MD, the medical director of St. …
Given the demand for their skills and the competitive market, genetic counselors can afford to be selective in their employment choices. Hospitals and clinics must therefore be creative in their recruiting efforts and offer competitive packages.
A step-by-step guide on how to develop and implement a health system-wide distress screening tool.
While recent improvements in metastatic melanoma treatment are encouraging, prevention and detection at an early stage remain the ultimate goal with this potentially deadly skin cancer. In 2017, Neda R. Black, MD, published a research report in JAMA Dermatology on the promising work she and others had done educating hairdressers on the “ABCDE’s”—a set of standardized criteria to detect melanoma of …
Across the continuum of oncology care, our patients’ outcomes depend on many factors: living a healthy lifestyle, undergoing screening tests, receiving and adhering to treatment, and managing toxicities and comorbidities. These factors, in turn, depend on social determinants of health, such as access to care, safe housing, food security, and social support.
Through a community engagement session and focused interviews, researchers from Duke University School of Medicine, N.C., held a consortium to help stakeholders identify barriers to inflammatory breast cancer awareness, diagnosis, and appropriate treatment. Today the Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer is committed to translating research into action.
Dr. Lija Joseph, a pathologist at Lowell General Hospital, Mass., implemented a pathology consultation program to help cancer patients better understand how the disease affects their bodies. Based on strong patient interest, Dr. Joseph established a Twitter presence to spread the word about the benefits of patient and pathologist interactions.
Learn how Advocate-Aurora Lutheran General Hospital, Ill., modified an unused space in its inpatient oncology unit to create an outpatient oncology symptom management treatment area. The program now sees cancer patients outside of traditional office hours, thereby reducing ED visits and hospitalizations.
St. Vincent Hospital implemented a collaborative method of care that uses genetic counselor extenders to increase patient access to risk assessment and genetic testing.
Spoiler Alert: If you missed this week’s ACCC webinar on “A Review of Validated Tools for Geriatric Assessment and How to Use Them,” this blog post starts with the bottom line takeaway. Presenter Tanya M. Wildes, MD, cut to the chase in concluding Monday’s webinar: “Let’s agree to stop saying that it [geriatric assessment] is time-consuming!” Contrary to popular belief, she said, assessments for elderly …
In looking at cancer incidence data, Tri-Cities Cancer Center found that its region was experiencing a higher rate of late-stage lung and colorectal diagnoses than the national average. The cancer center developed a creative and humorous marketing campaign and workplace wellness program to raise awareness and increase screening compliance.
A recent ACCC survey of its membership asked cancer practices and programs how often they assessed the unique needs of their older adult patients. Nearly half reported having limited familiarity with current geriatric assessment tools. Seventy-four percent said they do not use screening tools to identify older adult patients with additional needs. Given that experts predict that by 2030, 70 percent …
Early identification, staging, and diagnosis of lung cancer is critical to improving patient outcomes. However, current diagnostic options are limited in accuracy, safety, and invasiveness—only 15 percent of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed at an early stage. Read how Fox Chase Cancer Center has implemented new flexible robotic endoscopic technology to diagnose hard-to-reach lung nodules with …
While financial navigation programs ease the burden of financial toxicity on patients with cancer and help healthcare organizations with revenue loss, the manual nature of the process is challenging for navigators and financial advocates. Cowell Family Cancer Center piloted a financial navigation software program to analyze the effects of automation on productivity, workflow, and organizational …
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