Guest Post by Dr. Patricia Ganz: What Cancer Patients and Their Families Can Do to Coordinate Post-Treatment Care
This post is part of our 20 Years Later blog series which examines progress in advancing the principles in the 1995 NCCS publication Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, Action, and Accountability (Imperatives), this month we will look at the ninth principle of Imperatives: “The responsibility for appropriate long-term medical care ...
Remembering Dr. Brent Whitworth, A Dear Friend and Compassionate Doctor
Post by NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso Today marks three years since my dear friend, Dr. Daniel Brent Whitworth, passed away at the age of 43, 19 months after being diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer. I met Brent on the first day of orientation week at Rice University in 1987. We ...
WCOE: Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, A Building Bloom, Double Mastectomies on the Rise for Men with Breast Cancer
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. It's Gynecologic #Cancer Awareness Month. Learn more about the different cancers here: https://t.co/1RQgV3LeYJ #GynCSM— NCI Cancer Stats (@NCICancerStats) September 3, 2015 A cancer building boom, fueled by economics and an ...
Dr. Walter F. Baile Offers Professional’s Perspective on Building the Relationship Between a Physician and a Patient
Dr. Walter F. Baile moderated a panel at the Spring 2015 Cancer Policy Roundtable that included many perspectives on how cancer patients and oncology professionals can collaborate in decision-making that will improve care planning and coordination. Following the panel, Dr. Baile sat down with us to discuss this issue further ...
Marlene King Discusses Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer and Collaborative Decision-Making with Her Oncologist
Marlene King was diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) in 2008 at the age of 48, and she elected to have a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. After treatments the cancer seemed to be in remission. In 2011, the cancer returned and she decided it would be best to have to a double ...
