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Editorial Calendar 2008
Each bimonthly issue of Oncology Issues provides practical information to oncology healthcare professionals—information they can use to solve problems and improve cancer care. The journal includes how-to-articles, tools, in-depth analysis, and industry news that help busy professionals stay abreast of industry development and implement best practices.
Selected Feature Stories for 2008
January/February 2008
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE
- Building a Center of Excellence: Faulkner Hospital's Model for Comprehensive Breast Health Care
- The Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center
- Marin Cancer Institute's Breast Health Program
- Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY
- How one model comprehensive breast care program transitioned to all digital mammography.
POINT/COUNTERPOINT
- The Payer's Perspective—Where We Need to Go The Administrator's Perspective—No Margin, No Mission The Physician's Perspective
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Virtual Airway Surgery: Computer Assisted Visual Enhancement
Space Reservation: December 3 
Artwork Due: December 14
March/April 2008
ONCOLOGY PHARMACY
- Oral Therapies and Safety Issues
The challenges of oral therapies, including patient compliance, safe administration, side effect monitoring, drug and food interactions, medication costs and insurance issues, and the availability of agents.
QUALITY REPORTING
- Georgia's statewide effort to engage community cancer centers in gathering and reporting specific cancer quality indicators. Plus, a look at NCI's National Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), and how it is affecting cancer care at St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital in Savannah, Georgia.
CANCER CENTER DEVELOPMENT: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND WORKFLOW PROCESSES
- Design and construction of a new cancer center. Plus, tips to improve planning and patient flow.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Lighting Up the Lives of Cancer Patients by Developing Drugs for Tumor Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy: A "See and Treat" Approach
Bonus Distribution:
- ACCC Annual National Meeting
- ASCO Annual Conference
Space Reservation: February 1 Artwork Due: February 15
May/June 2008
CLINICAL TRIALS
- Improving Clinical Trial Accrual
- Best Practices for Clinical Trials Billing
EVIDENCE–BASED MEDICINE
- The Cancer Registry's Role in the Collection of Quality Data
NURSE STAFFING RATIOS
- NIH's Ambulatory Intensity System for Oncology Nursing Ratios
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413: Partial Breast Irradiation vs. Whole Breast
Space Reservation: April 1 Artwork Due: April 14
July/August 2008
ONCOLOGY PHARMACY
- The Role of the Pharmacist in Private Practice
CANCER VACCINES
- An overview of available cancer vaccines, including how these vaccines may affect care offered at community cancer centers.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Micro-arrays and Gene Profiling.
Space Reservation: June 2 Artwork Due: June 14
September/October 2008
JOINT VENTURES
- Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., and AP&S Clinic developed a unique physician and hospital joint venture by forming a management services agreement for medical oncology services.
TISSUE BANKING
- What community cancer centers need to know. Plus, an update on NCI's caBIG™ cancer biomedical informatics grid.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Coagulation Implications for Cancer
Newest approaches to evaluation and anticoagulation, including fondaparinux and newer anticoagulants and current concepts of effects of the coagulation cascade on growth factors and tumor progression.
Bonus Distribution:
- ACCC 25th National Oncology Economics Conference
Space Reservation: August 1 Artwork Due: August 15
November/December 2008
WOMEN'S HEALTH
- Developing a state-of-the-art Women's Imaging Center
Practice tips for developing a top-notch breast imaging program, including recruiting a dedicated mammographer.
A MODEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER PRACTICE
- Tips for offering "one-stop-shopping" at an oncology practice—medical, surgical, and radiation oncology; pharmacy services; and supportive care all in one location. How the practice is structured and how they are reimbursed for their full continuum of services.
NEW TECHNOLOGY
- Targeted Therapies
An overview of targeted therapies, i.e., what they are, how they work, what are the practical implications/uses for community cancer centers.
Space Reservation: October 1 Due: October 17
Don Jewler, Communications Director
