Enclosed is the 2025 Quarter 1 – COA Affected person Advocacy Community Information Bulletin: © inventory.adobe.com.
Enclosed is the 2025 Quarter 1 – COA Affected person Advocacy Community Information Bulletin.
A Be aware from the Director of Affected person Advocacy & Schooling
The start of the 12 months is all the time busy for advocates, whether or not we’re making our voices heard within the new Congress or partaking with state lawmakers. This work requires us to study from one another and collaborate to remind policymakers why neighborhood oncology is important.
I sit up for seeing lots of you on the Neighborhood Oncology Alliance’s annual convention in sunny Orlando, April 29-30, the place the affected person advocacy program monitor is returning. Members will discover ways to have interaction with federal and state elected officers, harness the ability of storytelling, work with conventional and social media, and perceive COA’s coverage and advocacy priorities. I’m already listening to of palpable power surrounding how we will increase the collective voice of neighborhood oncology.
For these not but registered, I’d like to have you ever be a part of.
Sincerely,
Rose Gerber, MS
COA Director of Affected person Advocacy & Schooling
Upcoming Advocacy Alternatives
Have interaction with Fellow Advocates and Policymakers to Strengthen Neighborhood Oncology
- April 9: Digital Advocacy Chat: State Coverage Tendencies Shaping Affected person Care in 2025 (that includes James Lee, COA director of state regulation and coverage)
- April 29-30: In-Individual Occasion: Neighborhood Oncology Convention (Orlando, FL)
- Might 14: Digital Advocacy Chat: Nationwide Oncology Nursing Month
- June 11: In-Individual Occasion: Affected person Hill Day (Washington, D.C.)*
- June 18: Digital Advocacy Chat: Most cancers Survivorship (that includes Shelley Fuld Nasso, MPP, Nationwide Coalition for Most cancers Survivorship’s chief government officer)
- July 23: Digital Advocacy Chat: Sit In My Chair*
*Occasion dates are topic to alter
Attain out to your native CPAN Chapter Advocacy Chief or to Rose Gerber, roseg@coacancer.org, to discover ways to become involved.
Well being Coverage 101: What Ails the Well being Care System, and How Is Neighborhood Oncology Affected?
The USA’ well being care system is at a crucial tipping level. A rise in mergers, acquisitions, and physicians employed by hospitals—a pattern often called consolidation—creates a system the place some mega hospitals and well being methods dominate the market. Neighborhood-based practices shut due to consolidation, leaving sufferers with larger therapy prices, longer wait occasions, and additional journey distances. Mega well being methods revenue whereas sufferers, significantly these in rural and underserved areas, endure the results of fewer impartial oncology practices.
COA is advocating for Congress to repair these systemic points in order that sufferers can entry native, inexpensive most cancers care. Watch Ted Okon, government director of COA, to study extra.
Watch Tonsa’s Advocacy in Motion Story [60 Seconds]
Tonsa, a most cancers survivor and CPAN chapter advocate for Most cancers & Blood Specialists of Arizona, advocates for impartial neighborhood oncology along with her ardour to assist others and dedication to delivering optimistic change for sufferers. Watch Tonsa share why she advocates to ensure neighborhood oncology’s voice is heard within the newest Advocacy in Motion.
Why do you advocate? Encourage others by sharing your story.
Recap Current CPAN Advocacy Chats
Participating conversations with most cancers advocates, survivors, and professionals from across the nation on neighborhood oncology’s most urgent matters.
March: Sustaining wholesome consuming habits and customized diets are important for folks residing with most cancers and survivors to handle their situation. April Rozzo, MS, RD, CSO, LD/N, scientific diet supervisor at Florida Most cancers Specialists & Analysis Institute joined Rose Gerber, to focus on useful tips about diet planning.
February: Private tales are a strong method for sufferers, survivors, and caregivers to share experiences with policymakers. Rose Gerber and Caitlin Kubler, senior director of coverage and advocacy on the Forestall Most cancers Basis, shared how their very own most cancers experiences have an effect on their method.
January: With a brand new Congress, a brand new administration, and new well being care coverage priorities, what can advocates anticipate within the legislative 12 months forward? COA Government Director, Ted Okon and Managing Director, Nick Ferreyros joined Rose Gerber for a look into the crystal ball on all issues most cancers coverage in 2025.
Stream current Advocacy Chats on @OncologyCOA’s YouTube channel.
Most cancers Information You Can Use
Prime-Rated Food regimen Lowers Most cancers Threat in a Stunning Means, New Examine Finds – CNN 02/25
Meals from the Mediterranean have been proven to cut back the chance of growing prostate, cervical, and colorectal most cancers, whereas additionally reducing the chance of girls dying from any most cancers by 17%, in accordance with findings printed in JAMA Community Open. The Mediterranean food plan options easy, plant-based cooking, with a lot of every meal centered on vegetables and fruit, entire grains, beans, and seeds, with just a few nuts and a heavy emphasis on extra-virgin olive oil.
The Race To Clarify Why Extra Younger Adults Are Getting Most cancers – TIME 02/13
Scientists are racing to reply why most cancers, traditionally a illness of previous age, is more and more hanging folks within the prime of their lives. Globally, diagnoses and deaths associated to early-onset most cancers, affecting sufferers youthful than 50, rose by 79% and 28%, respectively, from 1990 to 2019, in accordance with a current examine printed in BMJ Oncology.
Most cancers diagnoses are shifting from older to youthful adults and from males to girls, in accordance with a report launched by the American Most cancers Society. Breast and thyroid cancers, which account for almost half of all most cancers diagnoses in girls youthful than 50, are driving the pattern.
Assets for Chapters
COA is working with practices and policymakers to guard affected person entry to native, high-quality care. Try the COA Prescription for Well being Care Reform, a blueprint to addressing the well being care system’s biggest challenges.
