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In the rapidly changing precision medicine landscape, community cancer programs seeking to incorporate newly actionable biomarkers face multiple barriers due to insufficient biomarker testing processes, expertise, and finan- cial and operational resources. To address this widening gap, ACCC’s education program, Evolving Biomarkers in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), examines these challenges …
The care philosophy of Levine Cancer Institute as summarized by its president Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, is “the heavy emphasis on patient support and patient-centric care combined with a focus on early-phase clinical trials.”
Occasions arise when treating a patient where an evaluation and management service and a surgical or infusion service or another procedure occur on the same date.
ACCC launched the “Testing and Treating ALK+ Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer” project in 2016 to support community-based cancer programs and practices in the use of precision medicine and molecular testing in caring for patients with ALK+ NSCLC.
Although many healthcare providers use the terms interchangeably, there are very important billing and payment differences between “packaged” services and “bundled” services
An expert ACCC Steering Committee shares 32 informed treatment and care delivery recommendations for the ideal care of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
NCCS and ACCC hope to build on the increasing demand for patient involvement in all aspects of healthcare and to empower patients and patient advocates to engage with their healthcare providers to improve cancer survivorship care at the local level.
A growing number of cancer programs offer prehabilitation services, and here’s what some of them had to say about the benefits of adding this service line.
Read how The Outer Banks Hospital and five other cancer programs joined forces to create a prospective peer review model for radiation therapy.
Rockville, MD – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) today announced a new e-course, Implementing Shared Decision-Making in Bladder Cancer Care, as part of its resources for cancer care centers to access evidence-based health literacy principles and shared decision-making strategies to reduce disparities in bladder cancer care.
Understanding the pressures that its member programs and practices continue to face, ACCC is actively looking at how it can support the membership, including providing on-demand education, training, and resources to fit into your schedule—at a time and place most convenient for you during this extended public health emergency.
Quality Improvement Initiatives The Evolving Immunotherapeutic Landscape in Renal Cell Carcinoma CME/CNE/CPE Credits: Yes Deadline: Friday, November 1 Three ACCC Cancer Program Members will have an opportunity to host a live, half-day process improvement workshop onsite at their institution. A three-member multidisciplinary faculty panel will provide didactic presentations and engage in collaborative …
Supportive Care Strategies for Dermatologic Toxicities Related to Cancer Therapies As cancer therapies increase in efficacy, there is a growing community of survivors: 18.1 million in the US, a number projected to grow to 22.5 million by 2032 and 26 million by 2040.1 Longer-term dermatologic adverse events associated with several novel cancer therapies are being experienced by patients and …
Reducing Hereditary Cancer Act | Page 1 of 5 March 13, 2023 The Honorable Chuck Schumer Majority Leader U.S. Senate 322 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader U.S. Senate 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Speaker U.S. House of Representatives 2468 Rayburn …
To improve care delivery for patients diagnosed with head and neck cancers, ACCC with the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance has launched an educational initiative to identify and address existing barriers to accessing care and optimal care coordination.
Racism attacks people’s physical and mental health and is an ongoing public health crisis. The structural inequities and social injustice that African Americans and other people of color endure have been amplified by the coronavirus pandemic as they bear a greater burden of COVID-19 due to lesser access to testing, treatment, and care, along with higher rates of hospitalization and death. And despite …
Though the importance of post-cancer care is widely acknowledged, cancer programs and practices continue to struggle with the optimal approach for conducting dedicated survivorship visits. As a result, many patients still go without survivorship care. Telemedicine—which has increased access to care in numerous specialties—may offer one solution to these challenges
As the team of Northwest Medical Specialties discussed its approach to meeting OCM requirements, we realized that the program required rigor and processes like those found in clinical research programs, and an idea surfaced. Employing practices, procedures, and rules commonly used by those who work in a clinical research setting looked like a promising avenue for OCM implementation.
“In this town, we’ve seen healthcare become a political lightning rod,” U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) told attendees on March 5 at the ACCC 46th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit (AMCCBS) in Washington, D.C. As our nation grapples with unprecedented challenges—both individually and collectively—posed by the world-wide novel COVID-19 outbreak, it seems as though lightning has …
The shortage of chemotherapy drugs is placing a considerable burden on cancer care providers. To end this, ACCC is working its members, as well as other provider and patient advocacy organizations, to identify potential policy solutions.