The Impetus for Creating the “Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care”
The impetus for creating an issue paper entitled "Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care" (Imperatives) came from a desire for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) to have a snapshot of the state of both the art and science of quality cancer care for people diagnosed with cancer across three domains—psychosocial ...
The Affordable Care Act & Cancer Survivorship (INFOGRAPHIC)
The first principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care states, "People with cancer have the right to a system of universal health care. This access should not be precluded because of preexisting conditions, genetic or other risk factors, or employment status." The Affordable Care Act has impacted these issues more than any ...
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Survivor Lisa Gray Talks About Her Experiences with the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is making great strides in ensuring that, “People with cancer have the right to a system of universal health care in which access is not precluded because of preexisting conditions, genetic or other risks factors, or employment status.” Post by Lisa Gray as part of ...
NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso Introduces Our New Blog Series
This year, NCCS and a diverse group of guest contributors will revisit the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care as published in 1995 and evaluate progress made to date in achieving the principles proposed and ensuring that they guide the cancer care experience. Each month, we will review and discuss one ...
Announcing a New Blog Series: “The Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care” 20 Years Later
Read posts from the new blog series: "The Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care" 20 Years Later In 1995, NCCS published Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, Action, and Accountability (Imperatives), the culmination of an inclusive, community-based process. Adopted at the First National Congress on Cancer Survivorship, the Imperatives represented ...
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Establishes the Jessie Gruman Patient Engagement Award
For more than twenty years, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) had the privilege of adapting our friend and colleague, Jessie Gruman’s important work into the development of the cancer policy work that we engage in. Jessie’s vision of patient engagement was always ahead of its time, and her ...
WCOE: Warlike Metaphors, a Report out of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Discussing Costs, and Other News
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. 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 ...
WCOE: Cost of Cancer Care, Adopting a Shorter Course of Treatment for Some Breast Cancer Patients, and Lung Cancer Screening
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. 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 ...
We’re Going Digital: Last Week to Order Cancer Survival Toolbox – Blood Cancer Programs in Audio CD
TIME’S RUNNING OUT: Cancer Survival Toolbox – Blood Cancer Programs – Free Shipping on Bulk Audio CD Orders The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is pleased to announce that the Cancer Survival Toolbox© is going fully digital! If you would like to order any audio CDs of the following ...
WCOE: Comparing Health Plans, Motivating Change in Clinical Practice, the Sunshine Act, and Clinical Trials Protocols
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we take a closer look at the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Charles Ornstein, Lena Groeger and Ryann Grochowski Jones from ProPublica analyzed changes in plans under the Affordable Care Act (“Big Changes in Fine Print of Some 2015 ...
