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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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    World Cancer Day: How ACCC is Helping Close the Cancer Care Gap
    February 03, 2022
    To address the steadily increasing rates of cancer incidence and death worldwide, World Cancer Day (celebrated February 4) has taken on a multi-year campaign to “close the care gap” and bring awareness to the large treatment and outcome disparities that exist in cancer care.
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    Health Equity a Key Theme of Health Care Value Week
    February 02, 2022
    In January 2022, ACCC co-sponsored Health Care Value Week, a series of virtual events with top Administration officials from CMS to support the advancement of value-based care. By highlighting the success stories of value-based payment models and addressing the need to further eliminate barriers to care for marginalized groups, the event discussed next steps in providing more equitable, accessible, and affordable care in the United States.
  • Advocacy Letters
    ACCC Urges Congress to Revise Drug Pricing Legislation
    February 01, 2022
    ACCC wrote a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden and Ranking Member Mike Crapo regarding drug pricing legislation being worked on by members of Congress. The letter asks that Congress remove providers from the middle of proposed drug pricing negotiations between the federal government and drug manufactures, siting the potential for negative repercussions on cancer care providers and their patients.
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    ACCC Co-signs Letter to Establish Pathway for Telehealth Reform
    January 31, 2022
    ACCC was one of 336 organizations that signed onto a letter to Congress on January 31, 2022, in support of comprehensive telehealth reform. The recommendations aim to provide significant relief to patients and providers concerned about the commitment to telehealth after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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    The Long Road to Recovery, Part III: Cancer Screening in the U.S. (ChristianaCare, Delaware)
    January 26, 2022
    Cancer screenings may have decreased since the pandemic, but the need for them hasn't. “You can continue to do the work you’re doing; we just need to be mindful," says Nora Katurakes, RN, MSN, OCN. "We can’t just stop living. … We’re going to have to learn how to live with COVID-19 in our community.”

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