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What Caught Our Eye: ‘Extremely High Premiums’ for the Sick, AHCA News, FDA Aims to Control Rx Pricing, & More

May 26, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Drug Pricing, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Pre-Existing Conditions, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Via Kaiser Health News — “The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly fewer uninsured […]

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What Caught Our Eye: AHCA Analysis, Medicaid Caps, Obamacare Helped Early Detection, ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Counseling Improves Care Planning

May 20, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Pre-Existing Conditions, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In the Spotlight – Via Modern Healthcare: “Up to 6.3 million people could end up paying substantially higher premiums if a bill similar to the House’s Obamacare replacement becomes law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.” […]

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Mommy, Where’s Your Hair? (And Other Questions I Faced as a Parent with Cancer)

February 16, 2017/in Cancer Policy Blog Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

It’s one thing to have cancer, and quite another to have children witness it. At age 37, I was diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer; I had a large tumor in my left breast, and the cancer had spread to lymph nodes and a rib. And I had a 14-month-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. Parenting with cancer is sadly not an uncommon phenomenon; […]

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Guest Post: For the Love of a Friend

August 9, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

My dear friend Avery[1], a woman I’ve known since we were 10 years old (in 5th grade together) was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) in 2006. Having observed my mother’s battle with breast cancer in the 1980s, I considered myself a veteran of the struggle. Times change. Diseases evolve. The intervening years—from the 80s […]

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WCOE: NCCS Moonshot Op-Ed, ACA Enrollment Deadline, Susan Gubar, BRCA Gene and Family, Poor Treatment Outcomes for Minorities

January 29, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Clinical Trials NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. NCCS CEO @sfuldnasso op-ed in @TheHill on #CancerMoonshot: Three questions @VP Biden's team needs to answer. https://t.co/3NAGYoyfHQ — NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) January 28, 2016 Still need health ins. for 2016? […]

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WCOE: Cancer Causing Infections, the Uncertainty of Prognosis, A Grim Breast Cancer Milestone for Black Women, Important Healthcare Marketplace Dates, and the Financial Toll of Cancer

October 30, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Some viruses and other infectious agents can cause cancer in infected people. Here's a list: https://t.co/SMtaEBaIor — National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) October 28, 2015 The Uncertainty of Prognosis in Cancer: You Don’t Have an Expiration […]

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WCOE: Deciding About Dying, Discourse Surrounding New Mammogram Guidelines, Biden’s Commitment to Helping People with Cancer, and Breast Cancer in Developing World

October 23, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Coordination, Clinical Trials, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Living With Cancer: Deciding About Dying https://t.co/PvWH2UaBM2 — NYTimes Well (@nytimeswell) October 22, 2015 We commend Vice President Biden for his commitment to helping people affected by cancer. https://t.co/anRZc6FlHx — NCCS – National Coalition for […]

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Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Student’s Perspective

October 8, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

Recently I had the privilege of attending “A Journey of Courage and Hope: The Johns Hopkins Metastatic Breast Cancer Retreat for Couples.” Facilitated by a renowned leader in patient-centered breast cancer care, Lillie Shockney, this unique retreat for patients and their spouses explores the resources to cope physically, financially, and emotionally with the chronic nature […]

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WCOE: Life-saving End-of-life Discussions, New HHS Investment, When Seniors Talk to Med Students, and More

October 2, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Planning, Palliative Care, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. "A nurse with fatal breast cancer says end-of-life discussions saved her life" #choosingwisely @NotesOnNursing https://t.co/cPhjYxPKGt — ABIM Foundation (@ABIMFoundation) September 29, 2015 How does cancer affect people from different populations and groups? This video explains […]

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WCOE: How Chemo is Given, PCORI Hosts Twitter Chat About Cancer Side Effects, “Good Cancer,” How Mammography is Both Helping and Hurting, and Lung Cancer Incidence Increases in Never-Smokers

September 11, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Planning, Clinical Guidelines, Clinical Trials, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. How is chemotherapy given? In many different ways, as we explain: https://t.co/vqUOL5PBtc pic.twitter.com/tS2Xn8fiwe — National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) September 9, 2015 Sept 29 at 2pm ET: join our Twitter chat about #cancer side effects & […]

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NCCS Advocates for Access to DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction Surgery

March 10, 2023
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship recently joined the Community Breast Reconstruction Alliance (CBRA), a group of patient…
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NCCS Advocate Spotlight: Betsy Glosik, A Cancer Survivor's Journey Through Integrative Healing and Advocacy

Betsy Glosik: A Cancer Survivor’s Journey Towards Integrative Healing and Advocacy

March 8, 2023
For Betsy Glosik, the early 2000s brought one trauma after another. She lost her aunt to melanoma. Then, tragically she lost her 20-yr old daughter to a car accident. In 2003, after years of mentioning her concerns about a mole on her foot to her dermatologist, and repeatedly having her concerns dismissed, Betsy was diagnosed with melanoma...
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Webinar – Implementing the ASCO Guidelines for Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management with Your Patients and Practice

March 3, 2023
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar discussing the American Society for Clinical…
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Northeast Regional Cancer Institute

 

“Perhaps one of the most impactful collaborations in Dr. Brereton’s extraordinary career remains his early work and long friendship with Ellen Stovall. Through him, and in turn through the thousands of lives he has touched, Ellen’s work continues, and her mission lives on.”

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