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Seeing the Bigger Picture of Survival Through Patient Advocacy

November 15, 2017/in Cancer Policy Blog Clinical Guidelines, Quality Cancer Care, Quality Measurement, Survivorship Care NCCS News /by actualize

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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What Caught Our Eye: Cassidy-Graham Repeal Plan; Bipartisan ACA Hearings; Financial Issues for Childhood Survivors; IBM’s Watson Not Living Up to Expectations; and More

September 8, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), September 8, 2017 | 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. | “Cassidy-Graham: the Obamacare repeal plan McCain is supporting, explained” — The senator who cast the final vote to kill Obamacare repeal is unexpectedly helping to revive that effort from the dead. Sen. John McCain told the Hill Wednesday that he would support a plan […]

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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Support at All-Time High, Kasich: ACA Repeal is ‘Very Bad Idea,’ Cancer’s Financial Burden, and Your Cancer Genome

February 24, 2017/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Access to Care, Affordable Care Act, Care Planning, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series. Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he won’t “sit silent” and watch the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion get “ripped out” as Republicans work to repeal the law. | High-risk pools are at the center of most of the Republican plans to replace the ACA.

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WCOE: Effects of Financial Toxicity, Patient Database Helps Researchers Nationally, New CLRC Handbook for Survivors, Metastatic Cancer and Employment

February 19, 2016/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Planning, Financial Toxicity, Health Equity, 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. #FinancialToxicity and high #costs of care create an undue physical & emotional burden on #cancer #survivors: https://t.co/5TecXglJjC — NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) February 17, 2016 Ohio State-led patient database fills national […]

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Guest Post by Amy Abernethy of Flatiron Health: Long-Term Medical Data Collection Improves Care Quality, Outcomes

August 27, 2015/in Cancer News, Cancer Policy Blog Care Planning, Quality Cancer Care NCCS News /by actualize

I once had a patient named Janet. Janet was a curly redhead emergency department nurse. She was vibrant, sweet, and vivacious, had melanoma, and was passionate about her data (her “story” as she liked to call it) being used in ways that would impact the future of cancer care. But this isn’t as easy as […]

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Beyond the Checkbox: Cancer Survivorship Care Delivery in the Community - Dr. Crystal Labbato

Webinar – Beyond the Checkbox: Delivering Meaningful Cancer Survivorship Care in a Community Setting

May 20, 2022
Last week, NCCS hosted a conversation with cancer control expert and epidemiologist Otis Brawley, MD. NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso moderated the discussion. “We knew exactly who we wanted to be our first guest speaker in this series. Dr. Otis Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, an oncologist and an epidemiologist. [...]
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Michelle Mollica PhD Webinar Survivorship Needs for People with Metastatic and Advanced Cancers

Webinar: Survivorship Needs for People Living with Advanced and Metastatic Cancers

May 6, 2022
Last week, NCCS hosted a conversation with cancer control expert and epidemiologist Otis Brawley, MD. NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso moderated the discussion. “We knew exactly who we wanted to be our first guest speaker in this series. Dr. Otis Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, an oncologist and an epidemiologist. [...]
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Erin McGee Ferrell: The Art of Cancer Advocacy

May 5, 2022
Advocate Spotlight May 2022 - Erin McGee Ferrell Erin McGee Ferrell’s cancer…
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“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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