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October 4, 2021
Join us at the virtual Multidisciplinary Summit on Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer in the Community Setting on Monday, October 4, 2021. Open to all members on the cancer care team, the Summit will explore practical solutions to improve the care of patients with advanced prostate cancer. We'll identify barriers to shared decision-making and propose new ways to better educate patients about their about …
According to LGBT HealthLink, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people are at an elevated risk for several types of cancer, including lung, anal, breast, and prostate. In addition, LGBT cancer survivors are 60 percent less likely than others to self-report good health and twice as likely to smoke than are heterosexuals. The healthcare community is increasingly recognizing that the social and …
Grand Valley Oncology, a freestanding cancer care facility wholly owned by Community Hospital, provides full spectrum outpatient medical and radiation oncology services as well as robust survivorship and integrative therapies programs.
The Susan P. Wheatlake Regional Cancer Center lacked the infrastructure to fund survivorship and navigation software, but still needed to assess how to meet needs, procure service affiliations, and facilitate access to services in a fiscally responsible manner.
The Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute (ABBCI) at Lancaster General Health is a new state-of-the-art facility that exhibits a model of integrated care, with prevention, screening, treatment, education, and survivorship care all under one roof.
Cancer and its treatment impact patients in many ways, beginning before a diagnosis and lasting long through survivorship, including one's sexual health. All of Me was created to bridge this communication gap between patients and providers.
Embedding counseling services into oncology and palliative care across 6 clinic locations landed this program a 2023 ACCC Innovator Award. Learn how this model allows patients to receive psychosocial care from treatment through survivorship.
Survivorship programs are a crucial element of comprehensive cancer care centers. Without them, patients who have finished treatment may have to face unexpected physical and psychological limitations without professional support. This series of posts on innovations in survivorship care features ACCC member institutions that have developed new, innovative programs to benefit the well-being of cancer …
This cancer program adapted the University of Washington’s Collaborative Care model to embed counseling services into oncology and palliative care across six clinic locations. This model allows patients to receive counseling for depression, anxiety, or other psycho-social concerns while in active treatment and survivorship, eliminating many barriers to care.
At University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health, the Heart and Vascular Institute and the Kaufman Cancer Center have come together to create a cardio-oncology program that provides a patient-centered, multidisciplinary clinic for cancer patients during diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
The panelists participating in the conversations on "Improving Care Team Communication for Immune-Oncology Survivors" and "Meeting the Psychosocial and Physical Well-Being Needs of Immuno-Oncology Survivors," highlighted a number of resources. These and some additional materials are available below. American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Optimal Resources for Cancer Care (2020 …
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 …
Improving patient access to clinical trials has long been a vexing issue for clinicians and patient advocates. Although trials are the backbone of cancer research, participation rates have remained unchanged in recent decades. As a result, more attention is being paid to the lack of diversity in clinical trial populations. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) held its 2019 Cancer Policy …
January 20, 2023
Join ACCC and guest speakers, Drs. Brendon Stiles and Percy Lee, to learn about a new resource developed by expert stakeholders that incorporates evidence-based guidance on best practice in stage IB/IIIA NSCLC. The resource addresses recommendations in four core components: care coordination and patient education, diagnosis and initial management, treatment planning, and survivorship, and can be used …
ROCKVILLE, Md. – The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is pleased to announce that six cancer programs have been selected as 2014 Innovator Award recipients for their pioneering solutions in the effective delivery of cancer care. Among the innovations from these award winning programs are novel tools for creating system-wide distress screening and comprehensive survivorship care plans …
As immunotherapy for cancer continues to evolve—so has the Association of Community Cancer Centers—adapting to meet the changing needs of the oncology community. The ACCC Immuno-Oncology Institute is the only initiative dedicated to educating multidisciplinary teams to go beyond a clinical understanding of IO and tackle real-world implementation issues. With the care of patients on immunotherapies …
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.
Cancer care services that address the full spectrum of a patient’s needs—physical, nutritional, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, and financial—have been found to greatly improve survivor’s quality of life and outcomes.
Catalyzing Patient-Centered Care
Imaging Modalities And Cardiovascular Screening For Cardiomyopathy And Non- Cardiomyopathy Events In Cancer Patients Ahmad M. Slim, MD, FACC, FASNC, FSCCT Regional Chief Medical Officer- Puget sound region Pulse Heart Institute Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Univ. of WA Assoc. Professor of medicine and Radiology, Tulane Univ Summary Recommendations Coronary Artery Disease screening …