Keeping You Informed

Admitting she might sound like an eternal optimist, Alyssa Schatz, MSW, vice president, Policy and Advocacy, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), spent the fireside chat on the first day of the annual Patient-Centered Oncology Care (PCOC) meeting highlighting the progress she’s seen around responses to prior authorization (PA) policies and movement on equity.

Early detection is widely seen as key to cancer survival, which is why screenings and prevention are so widely recommended.

Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to the hospital. Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J., had spent the previous week in bed with unusual fatigue and a deep, hacking cough.

In 1995, when Matthew Zachary was 21 years old and at college, he went to a campus doctor because he had hand neuropathy, although he didn’t know at the time that was what it was called. He was prescribed Robitussin and went on his way.

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

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

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