health plans and health insurance companies should be looking for value for their premium dollars, not only lower costs. Most cancer care can be obtained in the community, but an estimated 10% to 15% of cancer patients should have the option of treatment
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conduct of clinical trials. We can further challenge ourselves as a comprehensive cancer care community by asking “How do I expand prognostic modeling within my own work?” Some thoughts on this are below: Existing knowledge: What are the prognostic
David C. Hohn
advocate of health services research, was deeply concerned about discordant patterns of cancer care in both academic and community cancer centers in the face of compelling evidence from clinical trials. Dr. Winn felt strongly that the best strategy for
Joseph V. Simone
of all kinds because one of the provisions in the draft proposal was to redirect patients to community hospitals, which were far less expensive than academic hospitals. I had been at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for only a year and became
Carmen P. Escalante, Ellen Manzullo, and Rosalie Valdres
: results from a prospective community oncology study . J Clin Oncol 1998 ; 16 : 3412 – 3425 . 5 Glaus A Crow R Hammond S . A qualitative study to explore the concept of fatigue/tiredness in cancer patients and in healthy individuals
receive monoclonal antibodies for protection.” NCCN’s recommendations point out that vaccine hesitancy in the general population impedes the development of herd (community) immunity, which leaves people with cancer at higher risk. Reducing community
Mizba Baksh, Aaron Spaulding, Alexander Hochwald, Hodge David, Sikander Ailawadhi, and Pooja Advani
NHW formed the majority in this group (p<0.001). NHW formed over half of accrued pts in every Rx center (86% comprehensive community cancer, 78% academic, 75% community cancer, and 72% integrated network cancer center). Of the non-White pts, majority
was a year of reckoning with the United States’ history of racial inequity, in which NCCN and the greater healthcare community have been called with renewed urgency to develop ways to make quality cancer care more accessible and equitable
Numune Teaching Hospital, Turkey Call for Correspondence JNCCN is committed to providing a forum to enhance collaboration between academic medicine and the community physician. We welcome comments about the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in
Robert W. Carlson
Child’s Experience When a Parent has Cancer” was moderated by Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS. It is often recognized that cancer in an individual is a family and a community disease, and no person in the family and community is impacted more than the
