ACCCBUZZ BLOG

LYTE is a non-profit organization that aims to meet the needs of a growing and diverse breast cancer survivor community by providing expert health and wellness coaching.

ACCCBuzz recognizes June as Cancer Immunotherapy Month.

Discover the mission of Unite for HER—a national nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the health and well-being of those affected by breast and ovarian cancers.

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

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.

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

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

ACCC recognizes breast cancer awareness month.

Highlights from the third and final day of #ACCCNOC.

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.

For National Pride Month this year, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is highlighting the transgender community and what it means for cancer programs and practices nationwide to provide trans-inclusive care.

Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer is an advocacy organization that works with patients, providers, and researchers to share the latest information and treatment options for pancreatic cancer.

ACCC recognizes National Cancer Survivors Day with stories from two survivors who are members of its staff.

ACCC recognizes April as testicular cancer awareness month, one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in men 14 years to 44 years of age.

The rising costs of anti-cancer treatment in the United States have placed adolescents and young adults with cancer at an increased risk for financial toxicity.

On Thursday, March 9, the Association of Community Cancer Centers welcomed its members in D.C. for its 49th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center—the oncology conference dedicated to exploring cutting-edge solutions to persistent challenges and navigating the shifting cancer care landscape.

In recognition of pancreatic awareness month, ACCCBuzz sat with Cindy Gavin, founding executive director of Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer to discuss the platform’s efforts toward raising awareness for the disease.

Patients with cancer in rural areas have a substantial need for financial advocacy services, as they experience financial toxicity at a disproportionate rate.

Tom Vibert was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic colon cancer in 2014. Learn how participating in a clinical trial allowed Vibert to get back on the bike and beat his cancer.

Allen Beck and Rivka Beck were newly weds when Allen was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome. A month before he was scheduled to complete a bone marrow transplant, he lost the insurance coverage provided by his university. Angie Santiago, CRCS, the manager of Oncology Financial Advocacy at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at the Thomas Jefferson University Health System in Philadelphia, Pa, made sure he was able to get the health insurance coverage he needed to complete his treatment.

The VCU Massey Cancer Center incorporated a legal service at their center because more work had to be done to address social determinants of health rooted in legal problems in order to offer comprehensive services that met the full gamut of its patients’ needs.

In recognizing Cancer Immunotherapy Month and National Cancer Survivors Day (June 5), ACCC is highlighting the resources it has created to assist the multidisciplinary team in creating and adapting survivorship care plans to meet these patients’ unique needs and support toxicity management for better outcomes.