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Ruth is a 67-year-old woman living with metastatic lung cancer. She receives care at a treatment center near her home in rural southern Illinois. There are larger hospitals over an hour away in St. Louis, but she doesn t have the time or financial resources to travel there as often as she would need to.
Fortunately, the cancer center near Ruth s home boasts excellent staff - including her oncologist, experienced nurses, a pharmacist, and a social worker.
There are more than 2,100 community cancer centers just like Ruth s across the country - many located outside of urban centers. For decades, these centers - and their multidisciplinary staff - have played an integral role in helping Americans fight cancer. Unfortunately, fulfilling their mission is about to get harder - as is life for patients.
The ACCC 47
th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center
Business Summit (AMCCBS) took place
virtually, March 1-5. The Cancer Center Business Summit was
co-founded in 2007 by Foley & Lardner LLP and CCBD Group as an
opportunity for members of the community oncology c-suite,
providers, vendors, payors, and others involved in the business of
oncology to share best practices, learn about newest technologies,
trends, and legal and business updates in the industry, and to
strategize to position themselves for success. In 2017, the Summit
joined forces with the Association of Community Cancer Centers
(ACCC), and the AMCCBS now serves as the prominent thought
leadership forum and annual conference on matters of policy,
Due to new medications in discovery, the outcomes for patients with cancer are increasingly improving; however, the cost of this improved care is also increasing.