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Webinar – Survivorship at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center: Creating a Practical Workflow

May 12, 2023/in NCCS News Care Coordination, Care Planning, Clinical Guidelines, Doctor-Patient Communication, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Integrative Oncology, Palliative Care, Psychosocial Care, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making, Survivorship Care NCCS News

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar about survivorship care implementation, “Survivorship at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center: Creating a Practical Workflow.” In this webinar, Dr. Stacy Wentworth and Jill Hyson, MSN, NP-C discuss survivorship care as a critical component of a patient’s cancer journey. The presenters […]

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Accessing COVID-19 Resources After the Public Health Emergency Ends

May 4, 2023/in HHS, NCCS News Access to Care, COVID-19, Health Care Coverage, Quality Cancer Care Issue Statements, NCCS News

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which has been in effect since early 2020, will end on May 11, 2023. The federal government may continue to distribute free COVID-19 tests from its supply of purchased COVID-19 treatments, tests, and vaccines through the United States Postal Service, states, and other community partners. While this supply remains, […]

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NCCS Urges Insurance Companies to Preserve Access to DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction

April 28, 2023/in NCCS News Access to Care, Health Care Coverage, Quality Cancer Care Issue Statements, NCCS News

This week, NCCS joined other patient advocacy organizations and medical professional societies in submitting a letter to the CEOs of major insurance companies, expressing concerns with recent insurance coverage policy changes that have limited access to DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery. Specifically, the letter asks these insurance companies to engage with individuals who have received […]

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Webinar – Amplifying Your Message: Advocating Through Traditional Media Channels

April 21, 2023/in NCCS News Quality Cancer Care NCCS News

NCCS hosted a CPAT webinar on leveraging traditional media for cancer advocacy with public relations and marketing expert Michael Holtz. While social media is an important tool for amplifying cancer advocacy messages, traditional media outlets like newspapers, television, and radio, and their digital counterparts, are still relevant and can help raise awareness and put pressure […]

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Lisa Rice – My Breast Cancer Journey: Many Lessons Learned and More in Store

April 20, 2023/in Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News Disparities in Outcomes, Health Equity, Quality Cancer Care, Shared Decision-Making Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News

During my final semester of college, a life-changing call came. My mother was in the hospital, waiting for results of a biopsy of a tumor she’d found in her breast. My father told me that she’d already decided, if the tumor was malignant, she would proceed with a radical mastectomy […]

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Ruth Travis: Cancer Is Not a Death Sentence. It’s a License to Live.

April 6, 2023/in Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News Disparities in Outcomes, Health Equity Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News

Ruth Travis knows the power of early detection. She started getting regular mammograms when she was 40 years old. After 22 years, the annual process was nothing new. In 2007, Ruth arrived for her annual screening mammogram […]

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NCCS Urges President Biden and Congress to Support and Protect Medicaid

March 24, 2023/in NCCS News Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Coverage Issue Statements, NCCS News

This week, NCCS joined with more than 30 patient advocacy organizations as part of the Partnership to Protect Coverage to urge President Biden and Congress to support and protect the Medicaid program during any upcoming fiscal discussions. The letter calls on the White House and Congress to reject changes to Medicaid’s current financing structure and […]

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NCCS Advocates for Access to DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction Surgery

March 10, 2023/in NCCS News Access to Care, Health Care Coverage Issue Statements, NCCS News

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship recently joined the Community Breast Reconstruction Alliance (CBRA), a group of patient advocacy organizations and health care providers who are working together to advocate for access to deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap breast reconstruction surgery. Patient education regarding breast reconstruction includes a review of options, including breast reconstruction […]

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

March 8, 2023/in Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News Integrative Oncology, Quality Cancer Care, Quality Measurement, Survivorship Care Advocate Spotlight, NCCS News

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/in NCCS News Care Coordination, Clinical Guidelines, Doctor-Patient Communication, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Quality Cancer Care, Survivorship Care NCCS News

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar discussing the American Society for Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Guidelines for Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management and how to best implement them in a clinical setting. Sami Mansfield, founder of Cancer Wellness for Life, and Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD, a professor of nutrition sciences […]

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NCCS Letter to HHS

NCCS Urges CMS to Preserve Access to DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction

June 1, 2023
Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a public meeting, in which they sought input on its decision to…
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Webinar – Survivorship at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center: Creating a Practical Workflow

May 12, 2023
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar about survivorship care implementation,…
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Sandra Finestone, PsyD: Be Bold and Don’t Hesitate – A 30-year Survivor’s Advice on Advocacy

May 8, 2023
Advocate Spotlight: Sandra Finestone, PsyD A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and life-changing, but for Sandra Finestone, it…
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