WCOE: Shared Decision-Making and Getting Doctors to Listen
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Components of shared decision-making. #CTACSummit2015 pic.twitter.com/1yjm5MSwDC— Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) March 3, 2015 Public meeting on breast cancer patient-focused drug dev. April 2, register now https://t.co/1OXRCdQvZM— NCCS - National Coalition for Cancer ...
Decision-Making in Cancer Care: Communication (INFOGRAPHIC)
The second principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care states, “Quality cancer care should be available in a health care system whose standards and guidelines are developed in consideration of treating the whole person with cancer. Health care plans must regard the cancer patient as an autonomous individual who has the right to ...
Guest Post: Palliative Care in Oncology—We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby …But Let’s Not Rest on Our Laurels
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” -William Osler Since the creation of the National Cancer Act in 1971, the medical establishment—and indeed our entire society—has taken up the powerful metaphor of a “war on cancer” as the approach to attacking and ...
WCOE: New CMS Oncology Care Model Offers Hope, End of Life Planning, and ACA Questions Answered
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. The new #Oncology Care Model offers #cancer patients the hope of better care. @canceradvocacy @CMSinnovates https://t.co/uQA76ALOG3— Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) February 13, 2015 "What Does It Mean?" commentary by @drdonsdizon via @ASCO ...
Being Mortal Is Far From Being Morbid: Responding to FRONTLINE’s Profile of Surgeon Atul Gawande and End of Life Care
On public television stations nationwide, the award-winning FRONTLINE series aired a program on February 10th based on the work of noted surgeon and writer, Atul Gawande. In addition to Gawande's many clinical and surgical talents, he has the rare gift of writing articles and books for all of us, no ...
Revisiting the Second Principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care—Treating the Whole Person
This month, as part of the 20 Years Later series, we are revisiting the second principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, and Accountability. The second principle states, “Quality cancer care should be available in a health care system whose standards and guidelines are developed in consideration ...
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 ...
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 ...
NCCS Responds to Two Recent Articles Covering the Complexities of Transparency and Shared Decision-Making Issues
Two stories in last week’s New York Times illustrate the complexities of the changing healthcare marketplace. They both describe discrete issues that beleaguer and hinder the transparency and shared decision-making that we at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) call for when patients need to make an informed decision ...
Guest Post: Forgotten Survivors—Supporting the Needs of Patients with Advanced Cancers
Guest post by Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, Director of Johns Hopkins Breast Center and Cancer Survivorship Programs. On November 19, 2014, NCCS will present the Catherine Logan Award for Service to Survivorship to Lillie at the Focus on the Care evening reception in Washington, DC. Though more and more ...
