By Morris Panner – Modern medicine has revolutionized cancer treatment, and the prognosis for many cancers today is very good if caught early. That’s why regular screenings for certain cancers are a crucial part of preventive care.
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CMS issued the Calendar Year 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, which would significantly expand access to behavioral health services, Accountable Care Organizations, cancer screening, and dental care – particularly in rural and underserved areas.
By Sarah Larsen – During the first year of the Covid pandemic, patients missed around 10M potentially life-saving cancer screenings. The CDC encourages health care professionals to minimize delays in testing by continuing routine cancer screening, and helping patients safely access screening through interventions such as navigation (both human and digital).
By Robert E. Winkler MD – COVID-19 vaccines were developed extremely fast, approximately nine months from pandemic emergence to FDA approval in the U.S. This is, by a landslide, a record for one of the fastest development (and approval) of a vaccine, and significantly faster than traditional R&D timelines.
By Dr. Bernard Fuemmeler – At Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center, we make it our responsibility to provide the best possible care to our patients. This commitment to patients includes a constant effort to improve our research capabilities.
By Dr. Tandy Tipps – Patients and doctors missed or cancelled an estimated 22 million cancer screenings in the first four months of the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in an estimated 80,000 missed diagnoses, according to research published last year. Another study found that diagnoses for six major cancer types dropped by almost half.
By Joel Diamond MD FAAFP – While perhaps not as definitively as Newton’s law of gravitation, most providers embrace “early detection” as a truism for improving outcomes of most diseases and disorders. This is certainly the pervasive view in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
By Kayla Matthews – With so much COVID-19 news coverage, it’s easy to miss other relevant happenings in medicine, such as developments in cancer treatments. Besides making information potentially harder to access, the pandemic also introduced new hardships for people with cancer by complicating their access to care.
By Gina McNellis – We’ve already written over the past year about expected changes to the Cancer Registry– and how extensive they are likely to be. No doubt – this is a big deal. Remember the shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10?