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Reaching Every Patient, Everywhere: ASCO’s

WEBWhile cancer care equity has been a high priority for the Society since its founding in 1964, the events of the past year have put a sharp focus on ASCO’s efforts to address health inequities in cancer …

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Patient Education Is an Essential Element of Quality …

WEBData support the contention that good communication leads to improved health outcomes and supports coping. Our professional …

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Transforming Cancer Care Delivery With Generative AI

WEBNov 09, 2023. By Geraldine Carroll, ASCO Publishing. Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform cancer care delivery from diagnosis to treatment selection, and even the …

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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Cancer Care Is Not One Thing.

WEBASCO’s Evolving Approach to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. ASCO’s work aims to address all of the important differences that can impact access to cancer care …

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An Actionable Framework to Address Cancer Care …

WEBJeanne Regnante, chief health equity and diversity officer at the LUNGevity Foundation and a co-author of the framework, is hopeful that stakeholders in cancer care will greatly benefit from the new approach. …

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Disparities in Precision Cancer Care: A Multifaceted Problem

WEBInequities in precision cancer care are “complex and they’re multifaceted,” Dr. Pierce said in her introduction. “We know that lack of health insurance or inadequate …

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Staying Current in Today’s Era of Rapidly Evolving Medical Advances

WEBA study in 2011 estimated that “the doubling time of medical knowledge in 1950 was 50 years; in 1980, 7 years; and in 2010, 3.5 years. In 2020 it is projected to be …

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Progress Report: ASCO’s Efforts in Advancing Health Equity for …

WEBIn effect, this recognized the negative impact of minority stress and structural discrimination on the overall well-being of LGBTQ people and created research and …

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Ethics and Health Information Technology ASCO Connection

WEBHealth data that resides in a large data farm accessible only though proprietary software does not seem to be something that a patient owns. Electronic …

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Psycho-oncology: A Mental Health Priority for Patients, …

WEBPsycho-oncology: A Mental Health Priority for Patients, Families. Sep 12, 2011. Dr. Antonella Surbone (right) and friend in Italy. From the moment researchers first observed a placebo effect, the …

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Cancer Care by Zip Code: Examining Geographic Health Disparities …

WEBCancer health disparities is a term commonly used to describe differences in incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of cancer related to conditions among …

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Is Health Information Technology a Driving Force for Change or …

WEBIn health care, we often find ourselves reacting to events rather than dictating them. Being cast in this undesirable position is often unavoidable when dealing …

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Taking A Stand: A Conversation About Health Equity

WEBTaking a Stand. As the conversation came to a close, Dr. Pierce and Dr. Perez shared some final thoughts regarding health equity, as well as their hopes for the …

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Demystifying MACRA: Medicare Reimbursement Enters the Era of …

WEBExamples of improvement activities include achieving health equity, emergency preparedness and response, and integrated behavioral and mental health. …

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Letting Silence Into the Patient Encounter Allows the Provider to …

WEBHuman beings are generally uncomfortable with silence and if we, the professionals, can just keep quiet, the patient will speak first and break the silence. This …

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Tantalizingly Close: Global Health Equity and the Influence of

WEBThe Healthy People 2020 program defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or …

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Reflections on the Meaning of Value in Health Care

WEBA recent copy of The New England Journal of Medicine leads with an editorial from Michael E. Porter, PhD, of the Harvard Business School, entitled “What Is …

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The Impact of Public Policy on Cancer Disparities

WEBThe Affordable Care Act (ACA), while essentially a health care-directed legislation, has had a tremendous impact on cancer care and in reducing cancer …

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Global Oncology Research ASCO Connection

WEBASCO’s Journal of Global Oncology (JGO) plays a critical role in disseminating the results of global research, focusing on cancer care, research, and …

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How I Became a Surgeon, Clinical Researcher, and Director of …

WEBClement A. Adebamowo, BM, ChB Hons, ScD, FWACS, FACS, FASCO, FSSO, has a career that spans two continents. He is a tenured Professor in the …

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When Things Go Wrong: Dealing With Medical Errors

WEBA patient receives a chemotherapy dose that was not adequately reduced for impaired organ function leading to increased toxicity. Indeed, chemotherapy errors are …

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Free-Form Text from Electronic Health Records Delivers a Wealth …

WEBThe novel idea devised by the researchers of the JOP study, “Detecting Unplanned Care From Clinician Notes in Electronic Health Records,” was to mine EHR …

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