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Opportunities and Challenges in Cancer Research and Care
Many ongoing changes are likely to have an impact on cancer research and care. For example, technological advances are rapidly changing the way cancer...
Second Workshop Summary
The National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has played an integral role in cancer research and in est...
Workshop Proceedings
These proceedings of a workshop presented to the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) National Cancer Policy Forum on March 30, 2007, are the result of forum...
Workshop Summary
In recent years, patients' out-of-pocket costs for cancer care have been rising rapidly. These costs include health insurance deductibles, coinsurance...
Proceedings of a Workshop
Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of cance...
The IOM's National Cancer Policy Board estimated in 2003 that even modest efforts to implement known tactics for cancer prevention and early detection...
A high proportion of cancer occurs primarily in older persons, and incidence of the major cancers is greater. This, combined with the expansion of an ...
Improving the Quality of Oncology Care: Workshop Summary
Each year approximately 1.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer in the United States, most of whom inevitably face difficult decisions concerning...
One of the challenges in treating cancer is the disease's complexity and variation among patients. Cancer manifests differently in each patient, so tr...
Sustaining Care in the 21st Century: Workshop Summary
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) predicts that by 2020, there will be an 81 percent increase in people living with or surviving cancer...
Cancer Prevention and Early Detection: Workshop Summary
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the glob...
Cancer Treatment, Palliative Care, and Survivorship Care: Proceedings of a Workshop
Rising health care costs are a central fiscal challenge confronting the United States. National spending on health care currently accounts for 18 perc...
A long-held goal in oncology has been to develop therapies that target the specific abnormalities in each patient's cancer rather than simply treating...
Immunotherapy is a form of cancer therapy that harnesses the body's immune system to destroy cancer cells. In recent years, immunotherapies have been ...
One way scientists are working to overcome challenges in cancer treatment and improve cancer care is through nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, engineere...
As information technology becomes an integral part of health care, it is important to collect and analyze data in a way that makes the information und...
Despite spending more time and money in developing novel therapeutics, the success rate for new pharmacologic treatments has been poor. Although the r...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Onco...
The oncology careforce faces challenges as population growth in the U.S. contributes to increases in the number of patients diagnosed with cancer. Sig...
Clinical Application of Computational Methods in Precision Oncology: Proceedings of a Workshop
A hallmark of high-quality cancer care is the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision oncology therapies, wh...
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440,000 deaths annually and resulting in $193 billion in hea...
Challenges and a Way Forward: Proceedings of a Workshop
On November 18 and 19, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a public workshop in Washington, DC, titled Sharing ...
Unlike many other areas in health care, the practice of oncology presents unique challenges that make assessing and improving value especially complex...
Patient Access to Oncologic Imaging and Pathology Expertise and Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop
Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cancer t...
The NCI-sponsored cooperative groups have made important contributions to improving treatment for many types of cancer, including breast, ovarian, col...
Advances in cancer research have led to an improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms underpinning the development of cancer and how the immun...
Advances in biomedical research have increased our understanding of the complex nature of disease and the interaction of multiple molecular pathways i...
In the nearly 40 years since implementation of federal regulations governing the protection of human participants in research, the number of clinical ...
Delivering high-quality cancer care to all patients presents numerous challenges, including difficulties with care coordination and access. Patient na...
A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care: Workshop Summary
The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to apply the concept of a 'rapid learning health system' to t...
The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Managem...
Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine and the American Cancer Society
Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges. While survival rates for ...
Summary of a Workshop
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The prolife...
The State of the Science, Evaluation, Implementation, and Economics: Workshop Summary
Research has long sought to identify biomarkers that could detect cancer at an early stage, or predict the optimal cancer therapy for specific patient...
Recent research suggests that obesity and excess weight can play a prominent role in the incidence and progression of various cancers. Obesity results...
Proceedings of a Workshop Presented to the National Cancer Policy Forum
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 was enacted to improve the portability and continuity of health insurance; pro...
Millions of women undergo screening mammography regularly with the hope of detecting breast cancer at an earlier and more curable stage. But the abili...