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WCOE: Obama takes on Precision Medicine, Palliative Care ≠ Hospice, Quantity and Quality of Life, CLRC News, Medicare Payment Reform, and Breast Cancer Patient Communication

January 30, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Health Care Coverage, Palliative Care, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

Don't miss President Obama speak on his #PrecisionMedicine Initiative at 11:10am ET → https://t.co/zcSZULoCno — White House OSTP 44 (@WHOSTP44) January 30, 2015 What is President Obama's 'precision medicine' plan, and how might it help you? https://t.co/T8sXHBGWm0 — Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) January 30, 2015 Beautiful post by @drdonsdizon. Palliative care does not mean hospice […]

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WCOE: Warlike Metaphors, a Report out of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Discussing Costs, and Other News

December 19, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

The stories that caught our eye this week included an article that points out the use of warlike metaphors to describe one’s experience of cancer as one that may prevent patients from seeking aggressive treatment.  Prior research has concluded that warlike metaphors may lead one to feel like a failure or guilty that they didn’t fight […]

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WCOE: Cost of Cancer Care, Adopting a Shorter Course of Treatment for Some Breast Cancer Patients, and Lung Cancer Screening

December 12, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Clinical Guidelines, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

In “The Punishing Cost of Cancer Care,” Dr. Mikkael Sekeres describes the difficult conversations he has with patients regarding the cost of cancer treatments and how reviewing the economic risks of treatment is now a standard part of his informed consent process. In the vignette he provides, one patient considers whether the cost of treatment outweighs the potential […]

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Guest Post: Forgotten Survivors—Supporting the Needs of Patients with Advanced Cancers

November 18, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Care Planning, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

Guest post by Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, Director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center and Cancer Survivorship Programs. On November 19, 2014, NCCS will present the Catherine Logan Award for Service to Survivorship to Lillie at the Focus on the Care evening reception in Washington, DC.  Though more and more cancer patients are being diagnosed […]

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WCOE: Medicare’s Draft Decision for Lung Cancer Screenings, Immunotherapy, Breast Cancer Screening

November 14, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Care Coordination, Health Care Coverage, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

Several items in the news this past week are of interest to NCCS. The article by Sabrina Tavernise in The New York Times reporting on Medicare’s draft decision to pay for lung cancer screenings for older, long-time smokers up to age 74 is likely to continue to spark some controversy. This proposal will be open […]

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WCOE: ACA Open Enrollment, Drug Prices and Innovation, Breast Cancer Awareness and More

October 24, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Coordination, Care Planning, Clinical Trials, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

This week, several articles caught our eye: Amy Berman shared her own experience “Choosing Wisely” when she opted for a single dose of radiation therapy to alleviate pain from bone metastases, instead of a course of 10 treatments. The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that 89% of uninsured individuals polled are not aware that the next open […]

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WCOE: Different Treatment Options Require Consideration of Patient Preferences, and What We Can Learn from Price Transparency in Veterinary Medicine

August 15, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Coordination, Payment Reform, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

In “Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Varies Widely: Study Raises Questions About Early Treatment Choices,” Dr. Elaine Schattner, contributor to Forbes, directs readers to a recently released study that compares the risk of hospitalization between patients with early-stage breast cancer who received different chemotherapy regimens. The study also presented that the six most commonly administered chemotherapy regimens […]

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WCOE: Peter Bach’s “The Day I Started Lying to Ruth”

May 9, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Planning, Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

In a series of Well Blogs in The New York Times in early 2011, Dr. Peter Bach wrote about the experiences he and his wife Ruth had when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.   Through his honest, but sometimes raw observations about how the medical system and individual oncologists can help us manage a […]

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Study Raises Questions & Choices for Women Screening for Breast Cancer

February 12, 2014/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

Several articles published on Tuesday, February 11, reported on a study in the British Medical Journal which finds death rates from breast cancer from all causes were the same in women who got mammograms and those who did not. The articles points out that the screening also had consequential effects when mammograms detected cancers that were too small […]

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Amy Berman Discusses Range of Cancer Care Issues

September 23, 2013/in Cancer News Palliative Care, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

Harold Pollack interviews Amy Berman for a recent post in the Washington Post Wonkblog. Ms. Berman speaks openly about her experiences living with Stage IV breast cancer and her decision to forgo aggressive treatments in favor of palliative care. The interview touches on issues ranging from personal to policy, emphasizes patient-doctor communication, and explores the […]

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NCCS Urges President Biden and Congress to Support and Protect Medicaid

March 24, 2023
This week, NCCS joined with more than 30 patient advocacy organizations as part of the Partnership to Protect Coverage to urge President…
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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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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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