ACCCBUZZ BLOG

In recognition of January as Cervical Health Awareness Month, ACCCBuzz highlights cervical cancer among the American Indian and Alaska Native population.

This is the second post of a three-part series on Modern Healthcare’s Social Determinants of Health Symposium.

This is the second blog post is on the NCCN Patient Advocacy Summit: Navigating the Care Continuum from Screening Through Survivorship.

Sutter Health details innovative programs designed to drive health equity at the most recent Modern Healthcare Social Determinants of Health Symposium.

For their final policy summit of 2023, the NCCN invited multidisciplinary stakeholders to Washington D.C. for a discussion focused on patients with cancer receiving comprehensive and equitable care.

ACCC, ACS CAN, and LUNGevity, launched a series of focus groups earlier this year aimed at making the case for increasing access to comprehensive genomic profiling for Medicaid beneficiaries.

ACCC has developed an initiative to support health care providers in applying evidence-based treatment selection for patients with advanced/metastatic gastric cancer. Learn more.

At the ACCC 40th NOC, an exclusive EHR Working Summit was held to understand and explore effective practices/workaround solutions for streamlined biomarker test ordering and results management.

ACCC's Improving Care Coordination Model can lead to improved care and treatment outcomes for patients with lung cancer.

As CAR T-cell therapies provide new treatment options for patients with certain hematologic malignancies, it is important that more cancer centers and programs deliver them.

Major takeaways from the NCCN Oncology Policy Summit in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, September 12.

Equitable access to precision medicine should be a right to which all patients with cancer are entitled regardless of their insurance coverage or type. Read more about ACCC’s efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries overcome financial barriers to biomarker testing.

As pancreatic cancer awareness month approaches, Let's Win Pancreatic Cancer shares a series of inspiring patient stories.

ACCC recognizes breast cancer awareness month.

Learn about key barriers in care coordination and therapy options for patients with AML who are not eligible for transplant and how providers can address them.

ACCC president Olalekan Ajayi, PharmD, MBA, shared the association’s key priorities for impacting cancer care in the United States with the President’s Cancer Panel.

Highlights from the third and final day of #ACCCNOC.

Highlights from a day of learning at day 2 of #ACCCNOC.

Key takeaways from day 1 of #ACCCNOC.

Insight from 2 ACCC members on the implementation of the Improving Care Coordination Model.

Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer provides a road map of resources to help newly diagnosed patients with pancreatic cancer obtain the resources they need throughout their care journey.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has recently proposed reimbursement for Principal Illness Navigation services under Medicare to help patients navigate treatment for serious illnesses such as 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.

Learn how the creation of the first advanced practice radiation therapist (APRT) role in the United States established a new model of inpatient care, elevating the radiation therapy skill set and allowing for intervention at key points along the radiation oncology care pathway.