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    The Promise of MRD Testing in Hematologic Malignancies
    May 05, 2022
    Testing for measurable residual disease can shape treatment choices and patient management to achieve better outcomes, and the need persists for members of the multidisciplinary cancer care team to better understand the purpose, use, and significance of this testing in all cancer treatment settings.
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    Optimizing Cancer Care Delivery in 2022, Part 2
    May 03, 2022
    Technology has a key role to play in the future of cancer care delivery. Read how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to help cancer programs and practices stay financially viable, while offering high-quality care.
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    Local Action Improves Access to Key Oncology Services
    April 28, 2022
    The second post in a three-blog series, ACCCBuzz shares how Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates' NOLA initiative is addressing access to care, clinical trials, biomarker testing, and more.
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    Optimizing Cancer Care Delivery in 2022, Part 1
    April 26, 2022
    This blog is the first in a two-part series on value-based care transformation, focusing on new site of care settings like patients' homes.
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    Act Locally: No One Is Left Alone
    April 20, 2022
    Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associate's No One Left Alone (or NOLA) initiative is a multi-phase pilot program aimed at lessening disparities in cancer care in three key areas: care access, biomarker testing, and clinical trials.
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    ACCC Recognizes National Minority Health Month
    April 12, 2022
    ACCC—which has made mitigating disparities in cancer care a core component of its mission—recognizes the importance of National Minority Health Month and National Minority Cancer Awareness Week this April.
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    Leading With My Heart
    By Barbara Schmidtman, PhD
    April 07, 2022
    This is the first post in an ACCCBuzz series on effective leadership practices in cancer care, written by Dr. Barbara Schmidtman.
  • ACCC Asks Congress to Increase Funding for Lung Cancer Research Program
    April 01, 2022
    The letter asks Congress to increase funding for this program from $20 to $60 million to approximate the level of support necessary to fund high-quality research applications and to ensure that funding is commensurate with the impact of deaths attributable to lung cancer among Veterans Health Administration patients.
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    ACCC Recognizes National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
    March 30, 2022
    The US has seen a steady decline in the overall incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) during the past several decades. In 1975, 60 people per 100,000 were diagnosed with colorectal cancer; by 2018, that number had fallen to 34. But overall trends in CRC incidence and outcomes often differ among racial groups and geographic locations. Black Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with CRC than White Americans and more likely to die from it. CRC mortality rates in American Indian and Alaska Native populations have stubbornly stayed put.
  • ACCC Submits Comments for Senate Finance Hearing on Prescription Drug Prices
    March 29, 2022
    In response to a Senate Finance Committee Hearing entitled "Prescription Drug Price Inflation: An Urgent Need to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare", ACCC submitted a statement for the record highlighting concerns with proposed drug pricing legislation.
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    Tips for Assisting Uninsured Patients with Treatment Costs
    March 24, 2022
    Jeanie Troy, a financial navigator at Lake Region Healthcare in the Cancer Care and Research Center, discusses how to help uninsured patients access their anti-cancer treatment if they are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid.
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    Expanding Awareness of Multiple Myeloma
    March 23, 2022
    March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month. Learn how ACCC is supporting collaboration among healthcare providers with practical, scalable solutions to the real-world challenges of improving quality care delivery for patients with multiple myeloma.
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    Recap: ACCC’s 48th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit, Part 2
    March 15, 2022
    After convening its members, sponsors, and industry partners in Washington, DC, for the first time since the dawn of COVID-19, ACCC Buzz shares a glimpse of the activities and insights the final day at ACCC’s 48th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit.
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    Congress Passes Bills to Extend Telehealth and Fund Cancer Research
    By Matt Devino, MPH
    March 11, 2022
    This week, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package for fiscal year 2022 with broad bipartisan support. Included in the domestic appropriations are several key healthcare provisions of interest to ACCC and the cancer care community.
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    Recap: ACCC’s 48th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit, Part 1
    March 09, 2022
    ACCC convened its members, sponsors, and industry partners in person (for the first time since the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic) and online for the 48th Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit in Washington, D.C., enabling more people to participate in ways in which they were most comfortable.
  • ACCC Updates Financial Advocacy Services Guidelines
    February 28, 2022
    In response to the ever-changing landscape of healthcare and financial advocacy, the ACCC Financial Advocacy Network is collaborating this year with its partners to update ACCC’s Financial Advocacy Services Guidelines.
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    ACCC Encourages Congress to Fund Cancer Moonshot Initiatives
    February 25, 2022
    ACCC joined nearly 100 provider and patient organizations in supporting President Biden’s renewed Cancer Moonshot and its efforts to advance cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, and research. The letter asks Congress to provide necessary funding for the Moonshot’s initiatives.
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    Black History Month Addresses Health and Wellness in Oncology and Beyond
    February 09, 2022
    Each year, February 1 marks the start of Black History Month, for which a specific theme is chosen. The theme for 2022—health and wellness in the Black community—mirrors ACCC’s mission of reducing health disparities in cancer care and outcomes.
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    Cancer Moonshot Reignites
    February 07, 2022
    Read how the Cancer Moonshot aims to improve the experience of people and their families living with and surviving cancer by increasing cancer screenings, increasing access to clinical trials, and investing in new treatments, among other initiatives.
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    The Long Road to Recovery, Part IV: Cancer Screening in the U.S. (Munson Healthcare, Michigan)​
    February 04, 2022
    As in other areas of the country, COVID-19 surges during the past two years have led to the cancellation, postponement, or downsizing of planned community outreach and screening events at Munson Healthcare in Michigan. Oncologists at Munson think it’s likely that northern Michigan will see an increase in late-stage cancer cases as a result.

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