WCOE: Chemo for Late-Stage Cancers, Talking about Drug Prices, the Importance of Care Coordination, and the Rise of End-of-Life Care
What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. |
"We as oncologists don't want to give up on people, and patients don't want to be given up on." https://t.co/LFsysgxJsi #Chemo at #EOL
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) July 23, 2015
Drug Prices Soar, Prompting Calls for Justification, National Coalition on HealthCare: call for transparency legislat https://t.co/vnOAx3Q3Qw
— Daniel Wolfson (@WolfsonD) July 24, 2015
"In the end, I guess my greatest hope is pretty simple: that players might care about my son the way that I do.” https://t.co/Uz2t7TPZNC
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) July 23, 2015
The importance of care coordination across the care continuum https://t.co/THLVUgSfoA
— Oncology Nursing News (@OncNursingNews) July 23, 2015
The transcript of our #CopingCancer chat with @NIMHgov and many others is here: https://t.co/ujDzNe8JBo via @symplur pic.twitter.com/MHVqd1r3CL
— National Cancer Institute (@theNCI) July 23, 2015
Dr. Fred Bunz, NCCS CEO @sfuldnasso and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine CUPID Summer Fellowship students pic.twitter.com/24Ggd1imdk
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) July 22, 2015
Via @NPR: Intensive End-Of-Life Care On The Rise For Cancer Patients https://t.co/wAzj6ecU2L #EOL Advance #CarePlanning
— NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (@CancerAdvocacy) July 22, 2015