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Co-designing a model with patients, survivors, and the community.
The dawn of COVID-19 has brought change for all of us, but for cancer patients and survivors, that change has been particularly profound. Whether they are in active treatment or survivorship, people living with cancer often experience significant physical limitations, and this pandemic has put considerable restraints on aspects of all of our lives. The accompanying loneliness that this isolation can …
Learn about the mental health implications of treatment with cancer immunotherapy, and how cancer care providers can better integrate mental health awareness into the IO care continuum.
Simple Talk provides an opportunity for parents to meet with social workers, in person or over the phone, to discuss their fears and concerns about cancer, while learning how to best communicate with and support their children.
As you know, Seattle has been in the thick of the COVID-19 outbreak since late February, and we stood up our Incident Command System then. The situation here got very difficult, very quickly. Some of the many challenges my hospital and health- care system faced included limited personal protective equipment, intensive care units rapidly reaching capacity, and postponing or delaying …
As more evidence is showing, all the activities encompassed under the wellness umbrella can be applied to cancer prevention and the cancer care continuum.
Nutrition plays a critical role in cancer prevention, treatment, and survivorship, and the registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) is an integral member of the multidisciplinary cancer care team.
We proposed creating an online video support group to enable patients with cancer who would otherwise have difficulty attending such groups to participate virtually.
Jeffrey Kendall, PsyD, LP, shares useful tips and resources for compassionate communication with patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Randall A. Oyer, MD For resources on COVID-19 as it applies to the oncology community, please visit ACCC’s continually updated Coronavirus Resource page. ACCC members can also access ACCCExchange, a listserv that allows them to communicate in real time with their colleagues about how the COVID-19 virus is affecting their communities and their patients. As a community-spread disease, coronavirus …
Understand the importance of financial health literacy for patients with cancer, how cancer team members can better help patients and caregivers avoid financial toxicity, and what steps cancer programs can take to promote awareness and proactive engagement.
For resources on COVID-19 as it applies to the oncology community, please visit ACCC’s continually updated Coronavirus Resource page. ACCC members can also access ACCCExchange, a listserv that allows them to communicate in real time with their colleagues about how the COVID-19 virus is affecting their communities and their patients. As COVID-19 spreads across the U.S., not everyone will get sick. …
For most providers and other professionals in the healthcare industry, information about coronavirus (COVID-19) is coming fast and furious. As we strive to flatten the curve of the spread of the virus, a "new normal" of patient care delivery has for many of us materialized seemingly overnight. Our workdays are likely getting busier, and our home lives more complicated. It’s getting more and more difficult …
This innovative program provides coordinated whole-person care, ensuring that patients receive the support they need through psychosocial counseling, social support, rehabilitation services, financial counseling, nurse navigation, nutritional intervention, transportation assistance, physical therapy, tertiary care referrals, and medication assistance. The GPS approach helps the cancer care team proactively …
Our team of young adult administrators quietly agreed that we were not doing all that we could for our young adult cancer patients. This session was our call to action. When we returned to our program, our team pledged do more for this often forgotten about patient population—the In-Betweeners.
Evidence-based diet and exercise interventions and programs that can improve cancer survivors’ quality of life and physical and mental health.
Despite the demonstrated need to implement evidence-based interventions that address the psychosocial and behavioral concerns of cancer survivors, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of community-based survivorship programs. To address this need, the Fort Worth Program for Community Survivorship—a community-based cancer survivorship program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center …
While the contributions of dietitians to cancer care are increasingly being acknowledged in much of the oncology provider community, so too is the recognition that adequate nutritional care is absent from the treatment of most cancer patients. Although the anecdotal evidence supporting this impression is overwhelming, until now there has been little effort to gather numbers to validate the need for …
The causes, symptoms, and treatment of cancer can be enormously complex. Upon being diagnosed, people are often thrust into a medical world that is completely unknown to them. Some find themselves in the position of having to make complicated treatment choices in a short amount of time. Given that research indicates that more than one-third of U.S. adults have limited health literacy, that prospect …
When Lori Schneider helped create the first financial counselor role at Green Bay Oncology in Wisconsin in 2006, she was helping pioneer a solution to a need that would grow tremendously in the following years. “It's a key role,” says Schneider, “and the need for it is expanding, especially with the current insurance structure and huge out-of-pocket expenses for patients.” Today, Schneider has amassed …