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WCOE: Obama takes on Precision Medicine, Palliative Care ≠ Hospice, Quantity and Quality of Life, CLRC News, Medicare Payment Reform, and Breast Cancer Patient Communication

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Don't miss President Obama speak on his #PrecisionMedicine Initiative at 11:10am ET → https://t.co/zcSZULoCno — White House OSTP 44 (@WHOSTP44) January 30, 2015 What is President Obama's 'precision medicine' plan, and how might it help you? https://t.co/T8sXHBGWm0 — Shelley Fuld Nasso (@sfuldnasso) January 30, 2015 Beautiful post by @drdonsdizon. Palliative care does not mean hospice […]

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WCOE: Attention for Precision Medicine, Cancer Statistics, Coming to Terms, and the Challenge of Paying for Drugs

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Precision medicine= right treatment, right person, right time. Excited @WhiteHouse is shedding light on this important issue. #SOTU — ACSCAN (@ACSCAN) January 21, 2015 Predictions for 2015 include 1.6 million new cases of cancer, with 589,000 cancer deaths https://t.co/k8GDabuVv6 — Oncology Nursing News (@OncNursingNews) January 22, 2015 https://twitter.com/NikiBarrPhD/status/558255409862279170 Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative: Paying For Drugs […]

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WCOE: New IOM Report, Control Issues, Tempting Treatment Options, and Patients ‘Right to Try’ New Drugs

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New IOM Report: Sharing Clinical Trial Data: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risks https://t.co/neRjKfx8ma #datasharing — NASEM Health (@NASEM_Health) January 14, 2015 "Cancer survivors plagued by lack of personal control" https://t.co/9tRPQrbdzs via @reuters "a wish to return to 'normal'" — NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) January 14, 2015 Doing More for Patients Often Does […]

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WCOE: FDA News, Medical Debt, the ACA, and Honoring Jessie Gruman

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Why The FDA Panel's Nod To Sandoz's Filgrastim (Zarzio) Is Good News For Patients, by @ElaineSchattner – https://t.co/Dle8xM2G9I — Elaine Schattner MD, MA (@ESchattner) January 8, 2015 NEW Policy Insight: High cost sharing can contribute to medical debt. Transparency can help consumers avoid it: https://t.co/p4uh62kkVd — KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) (@KFF) January 8, 2015 Amid […]

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WCOE: Warlike Metaphors, a Report out of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Discussing Costs, and Other News

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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 may prevent patients from seeking aggressive treatment.  Prior research has concluded that warlike metaphors may lead one to feel like a failure or guilty that they didn’t fight […]

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WCOE: Cost of Cancer Care, Adopting a Shorter Course of Treatment for Some Breast Cancer Patients, and Lung Cancer Screening

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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 the economic risks of treatment is now a standard part of his informed consent process. In the vignette he provides, one patient considers whether the cost of treatment outweighs the potential […]

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WCOE: Comparing Health Plans, Motivating Change in Clinical Practice, the Sunshine Act, and Clinical Trials Protocols

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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 Obamacare Plans”), and ProPublica developed an app that allows consumers in 34 states to compare premiums, deductibles, and other costs under 2014 and 2015 plans. If consumers choose […]

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WCOE: The Burden of Caregiving, Financial Incentives, Unnecessary Services for Medicare Beneficiaries, and Medicaid Reform

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In “Seeing the ‘Invisible Patient,’”Jane Gross addresses the burden of caregiving and how often caregivers’ health, both physical and mental, is overlooked. Ms. Gross refers to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that provides recommendations for lessening the burden and provides a list of questions that doctors and other health […]

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WCOE: Medicare’s Draft Decision for Lung Cancer Screenings, Immunotherapy, Breast Cancer Screening

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Several items in the news this past week are of interest to NCCS. The article by Sabrina Tavernise in The New York Times reporting on Medicare’s draft decision to pay for lung cancer screenings for older, long-time smokers up to age 74 is likely to continue to spark some controversy. This proposal will be open […]

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WCOE: Brittany Maynard’s Death with Dignity, Election Results and the ACA, and Susan Gubar’s “Not Talking About Medical Mistakes”

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Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman with brain cancer who became an advocate for the “death with dignity” movement took her life this week. Marcia Angell wrote about “The Brittany Maynard effect: How she is changing the debate on assisted dying” in The Washington Post, as did Sarah Kliff in “Brittany Maynard and the debate about […]

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