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Webinar: A Nurse-Led Care Model to Improve Access to Rural Cancer Survivorship Care

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Pam DeGuzman, PhD, RN, joined NCCS to discuss the development and evaluation of Comprehensive Assistance: Rural Interventions, Nursing and Guidance (CARING), a nurse-led intervention aimed at reducing disparities in quality of life for rural cancer survivors. During active treatment, rural survivors may forgo supportive care interventions to prioritize and consolidate medical visits into one day, […]

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COVID-19 and Cancer: Otis Brawley, MD on the Future of the Pandemic

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Last week, NCCS hosted a conversation with cancer control expert and epidemiologist Otis Brawley, MD. NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso moderated the discussion. “We knew exactly who we wanted to be our first guest speaker in this series. Dr. Otis Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, an oncologist and an epidemiologist. […]

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Jean Di Carlo-Wagner: Don’t be Embarrassed to Death

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In March of 2003, Jean Di Carlo-Wagner listened to a public service announcement by Katie Couric, in which she discussed the symptoms of colon cancer. It was then that Jean knew she had cancer. After two years of bowel changes, fatigue, reflux, pain in her gut, weight changes, night sweats, and bloating, Jean’s doctor ordered […]

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