Education and Training News

The ACS Cancer Accreditation Programs: Continually Advancing Quality Cancer Care conference,scheduled for May 20–22, in Denver, CO, is seeking best practices on the CoC 2020 Standards. If your facility has a best practice you'd like to share on the standards below, please submit it here.

• 4.4: Genetic Counseling and Risk Assessment
• 4.5: Palliative Care Services
• 4.6: Rehabilitation Care Services
• 4.7: Oncology Nutrition Services
• 4.8: Survivorship Program
• 6.1 Cancer Registry Quality Control
• 8.1: Addressing Barriers to Care
• 8.2: Cancer Prevention Event
• 8.3: Cancer Screening Event

Please note: All submissions must be completed at one time. If you leave the system, you will have to complete your submission from the beginning. Please have the following items ready:

• Title of presentation abstract
• Description of presentation (200 words max)
• Facility Identification Number (FIN) for your facility

You may submit an abstract on more than one topic, but each needs to be completed separately.

Abstracts are requested from physicians, advanced practice providers, and allied health care professionals at programs that are CoC accredited.

All submissions will be reviewed, and selected topics will be accepted for either an oral presentation or a poster presentation during the conference. Abstract submissions not selected for this conference may be considered for presentation at future educational programs.

Please contact cancerprogramsevents@facs.org with questions.