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Coronavirus and Cancer Resources for Survivors

Cancer survivors have expressed concerns and questions about COVID-19, the coronavirus, and how they may be at higher risk due to their cancer history. Here are some resources about COVID-19 generally, and its impact for cancer survivors specifically. NCCS is seeking answers from public health experts on the coronavirus and its impact on cancer patients and survivors. Please leave a comment [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Replacement Bill Analysis; Cancer Care Reality in an “Ocean of Hype;” a Highly Effective CML Drug

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. The American Health Care Act (AHCA) was introduced in the House earlier this week. A great deal has been written analyzing this legislation. STAT News has an honest and sobering article about the need to “do better in communicating the reality of cancer care to patients.” [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: High-Risk Pools, “Trumpcare,” Childhood Cancer Survivors, Medicaid Spending, Trump’s FDA Deregulation

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), March 3, 2017 What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy…
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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

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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What Caught Our Eye: GOP ACA Talking Points Analysis, Right to Try Op-Ed, “Worry, Scan, Treat, Repeat”

Kaiser Health News’ Julie Rovner analyzes key Republican talking points on the ACA. One concern consumers have is high out-of-pocket costs. But, Rovner writes, “Republicans’ most popular proposals for replacing current individual insurance plans — cutting back on required benefits and giving more people access to tax-preferred health savings accounts — would likely increase [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Analysis/Debate, Doc/Patient Communication, Universal Cancer Care, Financial Toxicity, Palliative Care Pain Studies

As the repeal and replace debate continues in Washington, the Brookings Institution spearheaded a study to look at what is and isn’t working with the Affordable Care Act. Their look at five states who implemented the ACA in various ways is informative to help inform where we go from here.
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Uncertainty, Coping Post-Treatment, Biden’s New Research Charity, Survivorship Care Plans

A new study by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 16% of Americans feel the ACA should be repealed immediately. | Last weekend, Republican members of Congress gathered in Philadelphia, PA for a party retreat to address some of the most pressing topics. However, one topic remains without consensus is how they will approach the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act.
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Debate, Thyroid Cancer Late Effects, Long-Term Follow-Up Care, Cervical Cancer Mortality, and Anxiety in Partners of Breast Cancer Survivors

For millions of cancer survivors and their families, Rep. Tom Price’s refusal to promise that no one will lose coverage because of President Trump’s executive order is unnerving to say the least.
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Repeal Debate, the FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence, and The Caregiver Space

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), Week of January 16, 2017 What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap…
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What Caught Our Eye: ACA Repeal Debate, the Trump FDA Transition, and Cancer-Related Fatigue

Today we are re-launching our week-in-review What Caught Our Eye blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Two cancer survivors and friends of NCCS wrote an op-ed in STAT News: “ACA replacement must include affordable insurance for preexisting conditions.”
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WCOE: Traveling for Treatment, Bipartisan Cancer Policy, Some Tumors Evade Targeted Therapy, Treatment vs Hype, Clinical Trials Info

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/707596195900891136 https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/709803591033360384 https://twitter.com/NCIMedia/status/710109696368238593 https://twitter.com/WSJhealth/status/710590214754807808 https://twitter.com/theNCI/status/710797922665947136 More…

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