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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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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