Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care

Increasing access to #cancer care & reducing disparities for under-served populations in the USA. Funded by Merck Foundation, led by UMich School of Nursing.

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@cancercarealli @colon_survivor @BeverlyMoy 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 We can't do this without the diverse community of #cancersurvivor and #caregivers. Together better.

[Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care @cancercarealli]

We at the Alliance @cancercarealli have developed policy considerations for improving access to #CancerCare for underserved populations. Read all about it on our website https://t.co/py8ftDup6i

[Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care @cancercarealli]

The full recording of @AllHealthPolicy Advancing Patient-Centered Cancer Care is now ready to review. Learn more about the intersection of #PatientCenteredCare, #HealthEquity, and #policy in #cancer: https://t.co/Ilho2iDZQj (requires login)

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@JoseTrevinoMD And then Candace Henley of @BlueHats4colons: "You are in a position of service. If you are not of service you will have to get out."

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Happening now: Translating Lessons and Successes to Policy and Practice. From @jodiann_b: "It's more than trauma, it's more than health. It's about people's stories"

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Powerful closing from @JoseTrevinoMD: "This is what the policy leaders need to know... It's not a matter of the power that you have in this country. It's a matter of the patients that you affect, it's the people that you represent that should matter the most to you"

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Dr. @ChrisFriese_RN closing the @AllHealthPolicy event: "The payer community needs to develop new models of care that integrate interventions that we know work... regardless of where you are treated in the country. If we don't... the important discoveries... Will be moot."

[Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care @cancercarealli]

Dr. @BeverlyMoy: "It is our responsibility as an #oncology community to get in front of those policymakers and tell them our stories and tell them exactly how their policies and laws are affecting our #CancerPatients"

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On the importance of health promotion: "As a cancer surgeon, I want to put myself out of business, I want people to not have to come see me, and therefore, I have to be working on prevention as well"

[Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care @cancercarealli]

We're now listening to @HUPrez17 Dr. Wayne Frederick: "We need a national effort to get screenings back on track... We need to have a focus on underrepresented minorities because of the gaps that exist that have only widened...

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📢"We have to start filling the pipeline of diverse health care professionals or culturally competent to go into some of these neighborhoods and support the work that must be done"