April 25th 2024
Coverage from the Community Oncology Alliance Community Oncology Conference, held April 4-5, 2024, in Orlando, Florida.
Innovating Community Oncology Care Delivery and Payment Reform: Insights From COA’s Ted Okon
October 25th 2023Ted Okon, MBA, executive director, Community Oncology Alliance, discusses early returns from the Enhancing Oncology Model and how community oncology practices are innovating in ways that can expand into other areas of medicine.
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Dr Lalan Wilfong: Patients Deserve the Full Benefit of Everything We Can Provide
October 23rd 2023At the 2023 COA Payer Exchange Summit being held October 23-24 in Reston, Virginia, Lalan Wilfong, MD, US Oncology Network, emphasizes the importance of oncology care equity, ensuring continuity of care, and enhancing care coordination.
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Frontline Pembrolizumab Plus Trastuzumab/Chemotherapy Improves PFS in HER2+ Gastric/GEJ Cancer
October 20th 2023Adding pembrolizumab to combination of trastuzumab and chemotherapy improved progression-free survival vs placebo plus trastuzumab and chemotherapy in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer.
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Streamlined Referral Intervention Sees Great Success Among Patients With Head/Neck Cancer
October 17th 2023A 2022 yearlong initiative at Summa Health Cancer Institute saw 100% of its patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiation treatment referred to an oncology dietician for nutritional support and/or speech and swallow therapy.
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Characteristics of Self-Triaged Emergency Department Visits by Adults With Cancer
Adults with cancer may have difficulty self-assessing the clinical severity of their acute care needs, yet they rarely use a telephone triage line available to them.
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Comparison of Primary Payer in Cancer Registry and Discharge Data
Enrollment in managed care among Medicaid enrollees presents challenges to classifying Medicaid coverage in cancer registries.
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Dr Carmen Solórzano Explains VICC’s Tumor Boards, Implementing Patient Preferences
August 28th 2023Carmen Solórzano, MD, FACS, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discusses how Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) conducts tumor boards and explains how patient preferences are considered during them.
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As Incoming CEO, Dr Crystal Denlinger Highlights NCCN Guidelines, Challenges, and Treatment Access
August 23rd 2023Crystal Denlinger, MD, FACP, incoming CEO of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), talks about the organization’s challenges and solutions to keeping up with the ever-changing oncology landscape and improving patient access to guideline-recommended treatments.
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A Mission to Cure “All the Cancers”: Crystal Denlinger, MD, FACP, Named CEO of NCCN
August 23rd 2023Denlinger, who spent most of her career at Fox Chase Cancer Center before joining the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) as its chief scientific officer, took the helm October 9, 2023.
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Dr Gustavo Fonseca on Key Takeaways From an FCS Analysis on Clinical Trial Enrollment
August 19th 2023Gustavo Fonseca, MD, FACP, physician director of clinical research, Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS), discusses the results from a late phase complexity analysis on barriers to clinical trials regarding biopsy requirements.
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Study Finds Neurocutaneous Syndromes Increase Childhood Cancer Risk
August 5th 2023Using data from the Swedish National Medical Birth Register, researchers found that different neurocutaneous syndromes are associated with increased risk of childhood cancer, especially central nervous system tumors.
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Dr Ghassan Abou-Alfa Expands on HIMALAYA Phase 3 Results, Methods
July 29th 2023Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD, medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, expands on findings that durvalumab plus tremelimumab demonstrated an overall survival benefit at 4 years for certain patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.
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