The ACS Cancer Accreditation Programs: Continually Advancing Quality Cancer Care, scheduled for May 20–22 in Denver, CO, is seeking best practices on the Commission on Cancer 2020 Standards. If your facility has a best practice you'd like to share related to 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.
Submission Deadline Extended: January 31, 2022
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.
ACS Cancer Programs will host multiple sessions during the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA) Annual Educational Conference April 6–9. The conference will be held both in person in Washington, DC, and virtually due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
The following sessions will be hosted by Cancer Programs:
April 7
- Keynote Address: Celebrating the Commission on Cancer's 100th Anniversary – CoC Chair Timothy Mullett, MD, FACS
- AJCC Future Directions and TNM Staging System Updates – Jeffrey Gershenwald, MD, FACS, and Donna Gress, RHIT, CTR
April 9
- New Directions in Cancer Care? – Cancer Programs Medical Director Heidi Nelson, MD, FACS, and Matthew Katz, MD, FACS
- Registrars Role in Measuring Compliance with CoC Synoptic Operative Reports – Craig Messick, MD, FACS; Timothy Vreeland, MD, FACS; and Nadine Walker, CTR
- The CoC Quality Integration Committee and You: Transforming Care – Daniel Boffa, MD, FACS
- Effective Quality Improvement Studies: Practical Examples from the Field – Elliott Asare, MD, MS, CMQ, and Kimberly Story, MHA, CTR
- STORE Manual Updates: What's New for 2022? – Susanne Kessler, MSM, RHIT, CTR, Moderator; Cindy Traylor-Richards, CTR; and Delores Akins, CTR
- Making the Transition to the New Quality Portal and the Successful Virtual Site Visit – Lauren Dyer and Erin DeKoster Reuter, JD
- NAPBC Standards: New Directions – Scott Kurtzman, MD, FACS
Attend to learn more about these important topics!
