January/February 2008

BREAST CANCER PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE

• Building a Center of Excellence: Faulkner Hospital's Model for Comprehensive Breast Health Care
• The Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center
• Marin Cancer Institute's Breast Health Program
• Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center

DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY

• How one model comprehensive breast care program transitioned to all digital mammography.

POINT/COUNTERPOINT

• The Payer's Perspective—Where We Need to Go The Administrator's Perspective—No Margin, No Mission The Physician's Perspective

NEW TECHNOLOGY

• Virtual Airway Surgery: Computer Assisted Visual Enhancement

Space Reservation: December 3    Artwork Due: December 14

March/April 2008

ONCOLOGY PHARMACY

• Oral Therapies and Safety Issues
  The challenges of oral therapies, including patient compliance, safe administration, side effect monitoring, drug and food interactions, medication costs and insurance issues, and the availability of agents.

QUALITY REPORTING

• Georgia's statewide effort to engage community cancer centers in gathering and reporting specific cancer quality indicators. Plus, a look at NCI's National Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), and how it is affecting cancer care at St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital in Savannah, Georgia.

CANCER CENTER DEVELOPMENT: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND WORKFLOW PROCESSES

• Design and construction of a new cancer center. Plus, tips to improve planning and patient flow.

NEW TECHNOLOGY

• Lighting Up the Lives of Cancer Patients by Developing Drugs for Tumor Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy: A "See and Treat" Approach

Bonus Distribution:

• ACCC Annual National Meeting
• ASCO Annual Conference

Space Reservation: February 1    Artwork Due: February 15

May/June 2008

CLINICAL TRIALS

• Improving Clinical Trial Accrual
• Best Practices for Clinical Trials Billing

EVIDENCE–BASED MEDICINE

• The Cancer Registry's Role in the Collection of Quality Data

NURSE STAFFING RATIOS

• NIH's Ambulatory Intensity System for Oncology Nursing Ratios

NEW TECHNOLOGY

• NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413: Partial Breast Irradiation vs. Whole Breast

Space Reservation: April 1    Artwork Due: April 14

July/August 2008

ONCOLOGY PHARMACY

• The Role of the Pharmacist in Private Practice

CANCER VACCINES

• An overview of available cancer vaccines, including how these vaccines may affect care offered at community cancer centers.

NEW TECHNOLOGY

• Micro-arrays and Gene Profiling.

Space Reservation: June 2    Artwork Due: June 14

September/October 2008

JOINT VENTURES

• Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., and AP&S Clinic developed a unique physician and hospital joint venture by forming a management services agreement for medical oncology services.

TISSUE BANKING

• What community cancer centers need to know. Plus, an update on NCI's caBIG™ cancer biomedical informatics grid.

NEW TECHNOLOGY

• Coagulation Implications for Cancer
  Newest approaches to evaluation and anticoagulation, including fondaparinux and newer anticoagulants and current concepts of effects of the coagulation cascade on growth factors and tumor progression.

Bonus Distribution:

• ACCC 25th National Oncology Economics Conference

Space Reservation: August 1    Artwork Due: August 15