CoC Recognizes Accredited Sites

Surgeons can play a key role in reducing breast cancer disparities by increasing their awareness of where disparities exist and having open conversations with their patients about their needs to initiate referrals early on in their care.

Following the recent announcement regarding Dr. Nelson’s retirement, the ACS is accepting applications through April 21, for a Medical Director of the ACS Cancer Programs.

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging System Version 9 protocols for anus, appendix, brain and spinal cord, and cervix can now be printed on demand from Amazon eBook.

In a new article recently published in Clinical Lung Cancer, “A National Survey of Surgeons Evaluating the Accuracy of Mediastinal Lymph Node Identification,” authors from the ACS Cancer Research Program (CRP) surveyed cardiac, thoracic, and general surgeons assessing implementation of Commission on Cancer (CoC) Standard 5.8.

Flavio Rocha, MD, FACS, has been named the chair of the CSSP Standards Development Committee. Dr. Rocha is a professor of surgery and the Hugh and Georgeina Hedinger Chair in Surgical Oncology at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

For cancer programs anticipating a CoC accreditation site visit, the Pre-Review Questionnaire (PRQ) will close 60 days before the scheduled site visit date.

The CoC’s 2023 Research Paper Competition is now open. Categories for submission are clinical research and basic science.

Mark your calendars for the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC) webinar Standard 5.10 Photographs of Surgical Specimens: Challenges and Solutions with Implementing the Standard, at 3:00 PM CT on April 18.

The American Cancer Society National Navigation Roundtable (NNRT) is hosting the webinar Reaching Communities through Patient Navigation: Evidence for Action from 2:30 to 3:45 pm CT on May 2.

The ACS NAPBC recognizes these sites for demonstrating their commitment to providing high-quality, patient-centered cancer care to patients and the community by recently earning NAPBC reaccreditation.

The ACS NAPRC recognizes the following cancer site for demonstrating its commitment to providing high-quality, patient-centered cancer care to patients and the community by recently earning NAPRC accreditation.

Save the date for upcoming Cancer Program events.