Keeping You Informed

To lower the risk of cancer, it's essential to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This includes not using tobacco products, maintaining a healthy weight, engaging in regular physical activity, eating a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, limiting alcohol consumption, and protecting yourself from excessive sun exposure.

Since its peak in 1991, the cancer death rate has dropped 34%, averting an estimated 4.5 million deaths due, in part, to earlier detection of the most common types of cancer.

A survivorship program at a community health system is utilizing survivorship standards as a roadmap for collaboration across a multidisciplinary approach, as an expert illustrated.

“Our food choices can have a positive and negative impact on our health, including contributing to chronic diseases,” Mariah K. Jackson, PhD, RDN, LMNT, assistant professor in the medical nutrition program in the College of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told Healio.

In 2024, COA’s Patient Advocacy Network (CPAN) provided advocacy, education, and engagement opportunities in multiple ways.

In 2023, COA’s Patient Advocacy Network (CPAN) provided advocacy, education, and engagement opportunities in multiple ways.

While the new year is always filled with energy and enthusiasm, it is also important to reflect on the impact of our advocacy accomplishments in 2022.

A Note from the Director of Patient Advocacy & Education .....

Advocacy Chats – Educational Conversations on Cancer Policy and Advocacy .....

Upcoming Advocacy Chats – Educational Conversations on Cancer Advocacy and .....