Oncology Issues : Archived Issues
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2008
- July/August 2008
- Cancer Vaccines: Activating the Immune System to Fight Cancer
- The Art of IT Contract Negotiations
- Top 10 Oncology Trends for 2008-2009
- Improving Patient Adherence with Oral Chemotherapy
- May/June 2008
- Xoft® Axxent® Electronic Brachytherapy
- Tissue Banks: Part II (Access, Control, and Regulatory Issues)
- Hammer Time?
- Cancer Center New Construction
- Healing Through Evidence-Based Medicine
- Georgia on my Mind: A Unified Comprehensive Approach to Cancer Treatment
- March/April 2008
- The North American Phase III Intergroup Trial NO147
- Lighting Up the Lives of Cancer Patients by Developing Drugs for Tumor Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy
- Getting the Most from Your Cancer Registry
- Tissue Banks: Part I; Who Controls the Tissue?
- January/February 2008
- NSABP B–39/RTOG 0413 Clinical Trial
- Virtual Thoracic Surgery
- The Payer's Perspective: Where We Need to Go
- The Physician's Perspective (with Some Health Policy Thrown in)
- The Cancer Program Administrator's Perspective: No Margin, No Mission!
2007
- November/December 2007
- Implementing TomoTherapy in a Community Setting
- Medication Reconciliation: Meeting the Challenge
- Comprehensive Cancer Control: An Opportunity for Collaboration
- New Perspectives on Developing a Cost-effective, Holistic, Integrative Medicine Program
- Use of Non-physician Practitioners: A Roundtable Discussion
- How a Dedicated Coder Can Help Improve Your Bottom Line
- September/October 2007
- Practice-changing Progress from ASCO 2007
- ASCO Round-up: Clinical Application of Recent Data
- Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Competency in Cancer Care
- Clearing the Way: Practical Strategies for Improving Health Literacy and Cancer Communication
- Patient Navigation and Cultural Competency in Cancer Care
- Partnering with Cancer Survivors
- Relative Risk: The Role of the Pedigree in Cancer Management and Risk Assessment
- July/August 2007
- State of the Science: An Overview of New and Existing Therapies for Metastatic Melanoma
- Survivorship: Beyond Transition
- Survivorship Education for Quality Cancer Care
- Survivorship Care in a Community Cancer Care
- The University of Colorado Cancer Center's Cancer Survivorship Program
- The Joint Commission Disease-Specific Certification Program
- The Journey to Oncology-Specific Certification
- May/June 2007
- NSABP Trial R-04 and ECOG Trial 5204
- Tackling Chemotherapy Reimbursement
- The Oncology Social Worker's Role in the Reimbursement Process
- Financial Challenges for Hospital-Based Palliative Care Programs
- Healing the Body, Mind & Spirit
- The Promise of Proton Therapy
- ACCC's Oncology Pharmacy Survey
- March/April 2007
- E5202: The GI Intergroup Strategy for Stage II Colon Cancer Patients
- Multikinase Inhibitors and Renal Cell Cancer
- At the Crossroads: What Oncology Practices Can Do Today
- Quality Care, Outcome, Cost: A Complex Balance for Hospitals
- Drug Pedigree Systems
- January/February 2007
- Recruit and Retain Top Oncology Talent: A Recipe for Success
- Recruit and Retain Your Nurses
- Innovative Ideas: How a Radiation Oncology Department Met Its Growing Needs
- New Cancer Therapies for 2007
- Patient-centered Cancer Care
2006
- November/December 2006
- To Test or Not to Test
- Implementing Hybrid CT/PET: The University of Wisconsin Experience
- Increasing Healthcare Costs and the Costs of Treating Cancer
- Practice Management: How One Small Oncology Practice is Surviving
- September/October 2006
- Gamma Knife vs. CyberKnife
- A Model Oncology Patient Assistance Program
- Co-Pay Relief: A Lifeline for Cancer Patients
- Perspectives from an Oncologist in an Outpatient Oncology Clinic
- Perspectives from an Office-based Oncologist
- Improving Reimbursement for Oncology Nutrition Services
- USP 797 and NIOSH Alert
- ACCC Cancer Program Guidelines: Pharmacy Services
- July/August 2006
- Oncologic Telerobotic Surgery
- Oncology Nurse Care Coordinators as "Navigators"
- Got Staff? One Program's RT Recruitment and Retention Success Story
- Managing Risk and Safety: A Priority for Today's Healthcare Facility
- May/June 2006
- VATS Lobectomy
- Strategic Options for Oncology Practices
- A Consolidation Story
- Staff Education in Radiation Oncology: A Model Interdisciplinary Program
- Institutional Review Boards: Everything Community Cancer Centers Need to Know
- Improving Clinical Trial Accrual in Community Cancer Centers
- March/April 2006
- Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer and Melanoma
- A Roundtable Discussion with Cancer Program Administrators
- Beyond the Plan
- From EBRT to IMRT to IGRT: Advances in Radiation Therapy
- Evaluating and Selecting New Linear Accelerator Technology
- January/February 2006
- Partial Breast Irradiation: Continuing the Retreat from Halstedian Breast Cancer Management
- The Impact of Payer Coverage and Reimbursement Policies on Off-Label Use of Anticancer Therapies
- EMRs for Hospital-based Oncology Programs
- From "Paper" to "Progress"
- "Hybrid" EMR Systems
- Medical Information Technology Systems: A Vendor List
2005
- November/December 2005
- Nanotechnology, Part 2: Tiny Technology—Tremendous Therapeutic Potential
- Time to Align!
- Growing Your Cancer Support Services
- Managing Managed Care
- Addressing Pain Control in Low-Income Cancer Patients
- September/October 2005
- Nanotechnology: The Promise of Tiny Technology for Cancer Care
- A Model Integrative Medicine Program
- Growing Your Cancer Support Services
- Remote Oncology Abstracting—An Option for Your Cancer Program?
- Nurse Resource Allocation in Ambulatory Cancer Centers
- Measuring Quality Healthcare in Radiation Oncology
- July/August 2005
- Recent Developments in Cancer Genetics
- A Conversation with Christian Downs, ACCC's New Executive Director
- EMR and Your Oncology Practice: Another Perspective
- What to Look for in Your Cancer Program Administrator
- May/June 2005
- Meet ACCC's New President E. Strode Weaver
- The OncoSurge® Decision Model: A Tool for Improving
- Resectability of Colorectal Liver Metastases with Curative Intent
- Reality Check—How Efficient is Your Practice?
- Practical Economics: Helping Cancer Centers Make Rational Drug Purchasing Decisions
- March/April 2005
- Cytoreductive Surgery and Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer: A New Standard of Care
- Cytoreductive Surgery and Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer: Limitations and Calls for More Research
- Joint Ventures: Why Would My Hospital or Practice Want One?
- Marketing Your Radiation Oncology Center
- Analyzing Your Radiation Service Line
- Boost Patient Satisfaction Without Burdening Your Budget
- January/February 2005
- Radiofrequency Ablation of Lung Malignancies
- Improving Revenue Charge Capture
- Understanding and Negotiating Pricing with Your Pharmaceutical Representative
- Understanding Drug Purchasing from the Hospital Prespective
- ACCC Members Invited to Join NCI's Online eHealth Research Community
- Measuring Physician Productivity
2004
- November/December 2004
- Cancer Genetic Risk Assessment Programs
- Understanding Tumor Markers
- The Cancer Genetics Program at the Cancer Institute at Alexian Brothers Hospital Network
- Process Evaluation of Community-based Cancer Risk-Assessment Programs
- Serving the Underserved: Three Model Community Cancer Programs
- September/October 2004
- Medical Liability Crisis Threatens Oncology Community
- Innovative Solutions to the Medical Liability Crisis
- Retaining Your Physicians
- Heads Up! Hot Issues in Medical Malpractice
- Oncology Practices Brace for ASP
- A Model Support Program for Children of Parents with Cancer
- A Model Patient Navigation Program
- July/August 2004
- Adding Dedicated Financial Specialists to Your Team
- Life After AWP
- Multidisciplinary Cancer Clinics: An Overview
- Multidisciplinary Oncology Clinics at Presbyterian Cancer Center
- Ohio Health's Multidisciplinary Breast Clinic
- Developing and Running Disease-Site specific Multidisciplinary Centers at The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center
- May/June 2004
- New Technologies: To Buy or Not to Buy?
- The New Clinical Programs and Services Committee at Northeast Medical Center in Concord, N.C.
- Integrating New Technology in a Physician Practice: Highlands Oncology Group in Arkansas
- Strategic Planning and Business Development to Make Decisions About New Technology: Presbyterian Cancer Center in Charlotte, N.C.
- A New Model of Chemotherapy Delivery
- Life Under APCs
- March/April 2004
- Nurses as Pharmacists vs. Nurses as Nurses
- Establishing an Oncology Pharmacy in Your Practice
- Should Practices Make Changes in Today's Uncertain Reimbursement Climate?
- January/February 2004
- Great Expectations: Marketing Your Cancer Program
- Cancer Support Services Under Fire
- Partial Breast Irradiation
- Marketing Appropriately at Your Cancer Centers
2003
- November/December 2003
- What You Need to Know Before You Hire a Nonphysician Practitioner
- 12 Easy Steps to Integrate a Nonphysician Practitioner Into Your Oncology Team
- Nonphysician Practitioners at Work
- Hospitalists: A Growing Commodity
- Nutrition Research and Cancer
- September/October 2003
- How Your Cancer Program Can Survive in Today's Tough Reimbursement Environment
- VA Health Care Facilities: Real Time Access to Patient Records
- What a Community Cancer Center Can Learn from the VA
- July/August 2003
- Planning to Succeed: Developing and Maintaining a Community Research Program
- A Research Program in Jupiter, Fla.
- ACCC's 2003 Cancer Program Administrator's Survey
- Morphine in Cancer Pain
- Neural Blockade and Cancer Pain
- Obstacles to Effective Pain Management in Patients with Cancer
- Cross-Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Cancer Pain
- May/June 2003
- Developing and Implementing a Policy to Deal with Disruptive Staff
- How Medicare Reimbursement Affects Our Patients
- Reimbursement Q & A
- Meet ACCC's New President: Cary A. Present, MD, FACP
- Current Trends in Pain Management
- Building a Model Pain Management Program in Your Community Cancer Center
- Building a Palliative Care Program at your Community Cancer Center
- March/April 2003
- Designing Cost-Effective and Compassionate Cancer Centers: Current Trends
- Common Sense Aesthetics for Cancer Centers
- Designing an Efficient and Compassionate Cancer Care Environment
- Round Two: An Update on Brown Bagging
- 2003 Reimbursement for Radiation Oncology: Cautious Optimism
- Surviving Changes to the OPPS
- January/February 2003
- Listening to your Patients: Assessing Quality in Cancer Care
- Three Cancer Centers Share Their Experieces with Patient Satisfaction Surveys
- Highlights of the Final Hospital OPPS Rule for 2003
- Difficult Conversations: The Realities of End-of-Life Palliative Care
- Business Planning for Palliative Care
2002
- November/December 2002
- The Oncology Health Care Workforce Shortage: Solutions to a National Crisis
- The Case for and against National Health Insurance
- The Expanding Role of the Oncology Pharmacist
- Patterns, Patterns, Patterns: The Future of Cancer Research
- September/October 2002
- Effective Strategic Planning in Clinical Cancer Services
- Caring for the Caregiver: 14 Great Ideas to Prevent Oncology Staff Burnout
- Radiation Oncology Viability in Hospitals and Freestanding Clinics
- An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cancer Rehabilitation: A Model Indiana Outpatient Clinic Program
- July/August 2002
- The Impact of Clinical Guidelines on Oncology Care
- Outpatient Revenue Capture—The Journey of Discovery
- Integrating Information Technology Systems
- Establishing Responsible Relationships with Drug and Device Manufacturers
- May/June 2002
- How to Create a Successful Joint Venture
- An Innovative Quality Control Program for Prostate Brachytherapy: Pro-Qura
- Modern Prostate Brachytherapy
- What to Say When Treatment Fails
- March/April 2002
- Strategies for Expanding a CCOP
- A Model Protocol Management System
- Legal Issues in Complying with HIPAA
- Current Initiatives at the National Cancer Institute
- Are Cancer Centers Meeting Their Patients' Nutritional Needs
- One Day in the Life of Two Outpatient Oncology Dietitians
- Nutritional Problems and the Cancer Patient: Psychosocial Considerations
- January/February 2002
- Telemedicine at the Community Cancer Center
- Videoconferencing in Your Practice
- Oral Oncology Products: Barriers to Successful Adoption
- Your Cancer Registry: More Than Just Case Counts
- Selecting Your Cancer Registry Software
- Integrating Complementary Therapies into a Traditional Oncology Practice
Don Jewler, Communications Director
