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On October 25 and 26, 2021, the National Cancer Policy Forum and the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity will host a public workshop that will examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum.
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Workshop
·2022
Despite advances in the delivery of high-quality cancer care and improvements in patient outcomes in recent years, disparities in cancer incidence, care, and patient outcomes persist. To examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum, the National Cancer Policy Forum...
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A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planning committee will organize and host a 1.5-day public workshop that will examine opportunities to improve health equity across the cancer care continuum. The workshop will feature invited presentations and panel discussions on topics that may include:
- Opportunities to improve patient access to affordable, high-quality cancer care (e.g., prevention, screening, treatment, clinical trials, palliative care, survivorship care).
- Strategies to identify and address the intersectionality of structural racism and implicit bias in cancer care delivery.
- The potential for quality measurement and payment mechanisms to incentivize health equity in cancer care delivery.
- Clinical practice data collection efforts to better assess and care for patients with cancer (e.g., information on the social determinants of health, patient-reported outcome measures for symptom management).
The planning committee will develop the agenda for the workshop sessions, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.
Contributors
Sponsors
American Association for Cancer Research
American Cancer Society
American College of Radiology
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Association of American Cancer Institutes
Association of Community Cancer Centers
Bristol Myers Squibb
Cancer Support Community
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CEO Roundtable on Cancer
Flatiron Health
Merck
National Cancer Institute
National Patient Advocate Foundation
Novartis Oncology
Oncology Nursing Society
Pfizer Inc.
Sanofi
Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer
Staff
Erin Balogh
Lead
Sharyl Nass
Lead
Kat Anderson
Lead
Francis Amankwah
Lead
Rachel Austin
Annalee Espinosa Gonzales
Lori Brenig