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Health Care Roundup: Kasich on Medicaid Expansion Success; New Cervical Cancer Screening Choices; a Nurse’s ‘Gut Feeling’; and More

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Court Throws Out KY Governor’s Medicaid Countersuit — Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (R) lost a lawsuit against Medicaid recipients who are challenging the Governor’s attempt to implement Medicaid work requirements. Earlier this year, Bevin was also unsuccessful in moving forward with his plans in changing components of Medicaid expansion in the state when a federal court sided with the same Medicaid recipients. […]

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Health Care Roundup: Virginia to Expand Medicaid, Colorectal Screening Guidelines, How the ‘Bewildering’ Health Insurance Industry Works, and More

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Virginia Votes to Expand Medicaid — Both chambers of the Virginia Legislature moved a budget bill Wednesday that would expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The bill would make Virginia the 33rd state to expand Medicaid under Obamacare and could lead to as many as 400,000 people being newly covered. “As a doctor, I’m so proud of the significant step we’ve taken together to help Virginians get quality, affordable […]

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NCCS Joins Cancer Leadership Council to Oppose Right to Try Legislation in the House

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The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship joined with other organizations of the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) in a letter to House leadership to oppose House consideration of the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act (S. 204).The legislation passed the House on May 22 and goes to the President […]

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Reps. DeSaulnier and Poe Introduce Bipartisan “Cancer Care Planning and Communications Act”

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Advocated for by NCCS, the bill would increase comprehensive cancer care planning for millions of Medicare beneficiaries.  Washington, D.C. – Today, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA) and Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), both cancer survivors and co-chairs of the Congressional Cancer Survivors Caucus, introduced H.R. 5160, the Cancer Care Planning and Communications (CCPC) Act. A longtime legislative […]

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Seeing the Bigger Picture of Survival Through Patient Advocacy

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As patient advocates (as in most other things in life), it seems the more we learn, the more see what we don’t know. Whether we’re involved in promoting a patient-centered approach to research, direct care, survivorship, policy change or education, there’s a daily twist and update for us to wrap our brains around. And no matter which arena we find ourselves in, we are always looking for the endpoint: How far have we come in cancer care, and how does […]

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Video Post: Dr. Fred Smith Discusses Payment Systems in Cancer Care

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Earlier this year, Dr. Fred Smith participated in a National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Cancer Policy Roundtable panel addressing the question of whether new cancer care payment systems foster the delivery of the right treatment at the right time. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT: I’m Fred Smith, I’m a practicing medical oncologist in the Washington community area and […]

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Guest Post by Diane Blum: Developing the Systems to Meet the Psychosocial Needs as Part of Comprehensive Cancer Care

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  Twenty years later, the 10th principle of the NCCS publication Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, Action, and Accountability (Imperatives), is as critical and significant as it was in 1995. When it was written, it followed years of psychosocial research that demonstrated that cancer created an emotional crisis for patients and families. It […]

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Video Post: Dr. Keith Flaherty Discusses Genetics of Cancer, Targeted Therapies, and Clinical Trials

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Dr. Keith T. Flaherty gave the keynote talk at our 2015 Spring Cancer Policy Roundtable where he addressed the issues of the genetics of cancer and personalization in cancer treatment. Dr. Flaherty later joined us to further discuss these topics and the need for understanding the biologic basis of an individual patient’s cancer.  While we […]

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Video Post: Dr. Bob Carlson and Joan McClure Discuss the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines

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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is a non-profit organization, created by an alliance of 26 leading cancer centers in the United States. At the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship’s 2015 Spring Cancer Policy Roundtable, Dr. Bob Carlson and Joan McClure of NCCN sat down with us to talk about their organization’s Clinical Practice Guidelines. […]

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Guest Post by Dr. Patricia Ganz: What Cancer Patients and Their Families Can Do to Coordinate Post-Treatment Care

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Twenty years later, the 9th Principle of the NCCS Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care could not be more relevant. Increasingly, patients are required to take more responsibility for their health, using knowledge and self-monitoring tools that have become an essential part of medical care, such as monitoring of blood pressure, physical activity, and weight-—to name […]

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