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American Cancer Society Releases Guide for Prostate Cancer Survivor Management
The American Cancer Society has issued new guidelines to help primary care physicians (PCPs) get up to speed in the management of survivors.
The guidance is greatly needed because the care of these men increasingly falls to PCPs.
In the United States, the number of prostate cancer survivors is approaching 2.8 million, which represents 1 in 5 of all American cancer survivors, write the guideline team, led by senior author Rebecca Cowens-Alvarado, MPH, director, Cancer Control Mission Strategy, American Cancer Society.
Oncologists cannot keep up with this ballooning population.
Medscape Medical News.
"There is a shrinking number of oncology providers to care for newly diagnosed patients," Cowens-Alvarado said in an interview with
Read the report here: http://bit.ly/1tckh3f
Source: Medscape
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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