CANCER BUZZ PODCAST

Krista Nelson, ACCC President 2021-22, shares self-care resources for cancer team members during the COVID-19 outbreak and guides us through a brief mindfulness exercise.

Understand the importance of financial health literacy for patients with cancer and how cancer team members can better help patients and caregivers avoid financial toxicity.

Discover the results of the 2019 Trending Now in Cancer Care Survey—what tops the list of challenges, what areas are trending towards growth, and how cancer programs are evolving.

Learn about ACCC's efforts to make the case for hiring comprehensive care team members, as well as the development of a matrix tool to help programs prepare for alternative payment models.

We sit down with Mary Elizabeth Williams, one of the first patients treated with combination immunotherapy, to discuss her experience and how to bridge communication gaps among patients, doctors, and researchers.

We talk to a medical oncologist in a rural Montana community about the realities of rural cancer care, the importance of community oncology, and how to navigate common barriers to quality care.

Learn why a trip to the emergency department is different for patients who receive immunotherapy for cancer, what information helps ED clinicians, and what busy emergency department providers need to know.

Learn more about the role that oncology pharmacists play in cancer care and how that role is changing in the face of new therapies and the advent of value-based health.

Learn how a rural health system harnessed its passion and creativity to work around obstacles to clinical trial access and ensure its patients have access to cutting-edge cancer treatments.

Learn about the transition from immunotherapy into post-treatment survivorship, how it differs from chemotherapy, and why coordination and communication among providers, patients, and caregivers is essential.