Webinar: Making Integrative Oncology Regular & Routine: A Practical Guide to Meeting the Demands of Patients and the Needs of Health Systems
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) Presents the Survivorship Champions webinar “Making Integrative Oncology Regular & Routine: A Practical Guide to Meeting the Demands of Patients and the Needs of Health Systems.”
Conventional cancer treatments usually focus on treating the cancer directly. Integrative oncology treats the whole person, incorporating conventional treatments in addition to therapies that support a person’s natural healing ability. Whole person cancer care involves learning what matters most to patients and engaging them in health and wellness behaviors that influence their wellbeing and longevity as cancer is treated. Such care explicitly addresses mind-body-behavior — social and spiritual aspects of a person’s life. This helps oncology teams manage the fear and confusion that come along with the disease, helps oncology teams find greater joy in their work, and returns healing to medicine.
In this webinar, Terri Crudup and Dr. Alyssa McManamon present a study conducted by the Healing Works Foundation. The presentation is grounded in insights from two years’ worth of data and provides actions that can be implemented to make integrative practices the norm in cancer treatment and survivorship. The presenters review results of nationally representative surveys among people with cancer and treating oncologists, looking at their usage of, and attitudes toward, complementary therapies. Importantly, they review disconnects among doctors and patients, as well as drivers and barriers to increase adoption among both groups.
After the presentation, NCCS Advocacy and Program Manager Dr. Veronika Panagiotou conducts a Q&A with Terri and Dr. McManamon, with questions from our audience of health care professionals, survivors, and caregivers.
Watch the full video below or watch on YouTube.
Webinar Resources
- Presentation Slide Deck – Making Integrative Oncology Regular and Routine (PDF)
- NCCS Integrative Oncology Resource Page – Includes educational resources and videos from patients and health care professionals.
- The Evidation Health App – A companion to help people affected by cancer adopt complementary therapies during treatment and into survivorship.
- Survivors’ stories are the teacher: Narrative mapping and survivorship care plans as educational innovation for pre-clerkship medical students. Alyssa Claire McManamon, Marie Thompson, Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Healing Works Foundation Resources
Pocket Guides — Whole person cancer care is the intersection of conventional care, self care and integrative modalities that mitigate side effects and restore quality of life for cancer patients. It can be difficult navigating the plethora of information available on these topics. The Healing Works Foundation has produced helpful pocket guides that contain credible, evidence-based information on topics such as:
- How We Heal Campaign — For patients, advocates and caregivers interested in learning more about whole person cancer care, the How We Heal Campaign website is another destination with blogs, videos and other multimedia.
- Free CME Course — For clinicians who are interested in learning how to provide whole person cancer care, a free CME course is also available.
- For physicians: This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
- For nurses: Nursing contact hours will be awarded.
- Healing and Cancer Book — For a complete overview of whole person cancer care, including patient stories and experiences, the book Healing and Cancer, by Dr. Wayne Jonas and Dr. Alyssa McManamon, is available for purchase. The book directs readers to the best tools and resources available so that oncologists, primary clinicians, nurses, social workers, integrative practitioners, cancer care teams, and patients with cancer can incorporate whole person care into their own healing journey.
Healing and Cancer Book — For a complete overview of whole person cancer care, including patient stories and experiences, the book About The Speakers
Terri Crudup, MBA is a life-long researcher and integrative oncology patient advocate. After surviving two breast cancer diagnoses, Terri became a passionate believer in complementary therapies to heal the mind, body, and soul. She worked with the team at Healing Works Foundation (HWF) to design and publish a study showing a positive relationship between US health systems’ level of involvement with integrative oncology and the 5-year survival odds of their patients. While at IQVIA, Terri led the HWF survey research being presented through NCCS. Terri currently works at Evidation where she finds new ways to measure and improve health in everyday life.
Alyssa McManamon, MD, FACP is a practicing hematologist-oncologist and retired US Air Force colonel. She is an associate professor of medicine at Boonshoft School of Medicine-Wright State University and clinical faculty at the Dayton VA Medical Center.
