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Oncology Issues Supplements
Prostate Cancer
As part of ACCC's Center for Provider Education's Prostate Cancer "Best Practices" Project, Oncology Issues explored five model programs that demonstrated innovative models of prostate cancer care in the community. Also, included are treatment decision-making tools, case studies, quality indicators, clinical pathways, and more.
Extensive online resources are also available.
Cancer Care Patient Navigation
Cancer Care Patient Navigation: A Call to Action is a resource for community cancer programs interested in implementing or expanding patient navigation services. Learn about five model patient navigation efforts underway at ACCC member programs. Find sample tools including pre-assessment forms, intake summaries, referrals forms, patient satisfaction surveys, outcomes measures, and more.
Extensive online resources are also available.
Survivorship
Comprehensive Survivorship Services: A Practical Guide for Community Cancer Centers is a collection of practical tools and articles—model programs, survivorship care templates, and more—is designed to help your cancer program build, strengthen, and expand comprehensive survivorship services.
Extensive online resources are also available.
Breast Care
Breast Care-Related Articles, 2008-2009
- Building a Center of Excellence
- The Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center
- Building a State-of-the-Art Breast Imaging Facility
- Developing a Multi-site Breast Care Network
- Making the Transition to Digital Mammography
Breast Care-Related Articles, 2004
- Creating a Successful Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Conference
- Anne Arundel Medical Center’s Model Breast Center
- Comprehensive Breast Care Programs: What's in a Name?
- A Model Breast Care Center at George Washington University Medical Center
- The Role of a Breast Cancer Nurse Case Manager
Pain Management
Great strides have been made in developing programs and setting universal guidelines for screening and treating cancer-related pain. To keep readers current, ACCC provides an update on the current trends in oncology pain management and offers assessment tools, strategies, and techniques to reduce patient pain and discomfort.
Nutrition
ACCC Cancer Program Guidelines call for a nutritionist to be available to work with patients and their families, especially those identified at risk for having nutritional problems or special needs. Two ACCC supplements focus on issues in nutrition and cancer:
Nutrition: The 7th Vital Sign
November/December 2010
Building a Nutrition Program within a New Comprehensive Cancer Center
November/December 2010
Issues in Nutrition and Cancer: Update
March/April 2004
- An Overview for Clinicians
- New Approaches in Reserving Cancer-Related Weight Loss
- Multimodality Approaches to Optimize Survivorship Outcomes: Body Composition, Exercise, and Nutrition
- Nutritional Assessment Information, PG–SGA
- Functional Assessment of Anorexia Cachexia Therapy
- Nutritional Assessment Worksheet
Integrating Nutrition into Your Cancer Program
March/April 2002
- The Design and Implementation of a Model Nutritional Oncology Program
- The Multidimensional Role of the Dietitian at Your Cancer Center
- Oncology Nutrition Standards of Care
- Nutritional Screening and Assessment: An Overview
- Quality of Life and Nutrition in the Patient with Cancer
- Nutrition Impact Systems in the Oncology Patient Pharmacologic Interventions for Cancer-related Weight Loss
- Dietary Supplements During Cancer Treatment
Innovations in Imaging
New technology can differentiate your cancer center. Four technologic innovations in diagnostic radiology that hopefully will help advance earlier colon and possibly lung cancer detection, enhance efficiency and patient throughput, improve staging, and ultimately may help direct more effective treatment strategies.
IGRT in the Community
As a treatment process, image-guided radiation therapy has been in use for several decades. In recent years, as a result of advances in computer technology hardware and software applications, IGRT technology has reached new levels of sophistication. Here is a brief look at how Varian’s Dynamic Targeting IGRT technology was implemented and is now being used at both freestanding and hospital-based programs.
GammaKnife
Two model programs, reimbursement outlook, developing a financial proforma, and more.
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