Free!! Cancer Care Advocacy Forum, Washington, DC, October 24, 2012

Cancer Care Advocacy Forum

October 24, 2012

Embassy Suites Hotel @ the Chevy Chase Pavilion4300 Military Road, NWWashington, DC  20015

Community Oncology Alliance and Vital Options International, Inc., are hosting a Cancer Care Advocacy Forum, in Washington, DC on October 24, 2012. This will be the first in a series of forums bringing to light, not only the challenges faced by cancer patients undergoing care, but also potential solutions to those very roadblocks to high quality, affordable cancer care.
REGISTRATION:  To register for this event, CLICK HERE!

What is the Cancer Care Advocacy Forum(s)?

With over 80% of cancer patients being treated in the community/private practice setting, special attention must be paid to the care issues that confront this vast patient population. These individuals are often unaware of current advocacy and public policy initiatives that may affect them, positively or negatively.

As should be, there is a great deal of focus on finding and advocating for the “cure” for cancer. What often gets lost in the process is the importance of advocating for the “care,” especially as the nation’s health care delivery is under increasing economic pressure. Current and future cancer patients are faced with financial, treatment access, and related issues that often increase the burden of simply fighting the disease. The Cancer Care Advocacy Forum will focus on issues linked to cancer “care”   with an emphasis on the care that is received in the community and private practice setting.  The day will bring together national cancer-related advocacy organizations to learn more about the pressing issues and concerns that these cancer patients face, as well as their physicians and nurses, through their treatment process and survivorship journey.  

The goals for the Cancer Care Advocacy Forum are:

• Increase awareness of the issues surrounding community-based cancer “care” among the national cancer advocacy community, including disease-specific and general cancer advocacy groups
• Provide national cancer advocacy organizations with great exposure to the entire cancer care delivery team housed within community oncology practices nationwide.
• Educate attendees about community cancer “care” issues and advocacy
• Raise awareness of cancer care advocacy opportunities and possibilities amongst individuals being treated in the community setting
• Launch an ongoing dialogue by employing social media and other methods surrounding “Advocating for the Care”

Cancer “Care” Issues to be discussed:

• Advocating for the “care” in the context of the “cure”
• Implications of the changing landscape of cancer care for patients
• How health care reform (following the Supreme Court decision) will affect cancer care
• Exchanges, essential benefits design, and over-all cancer care
• Patient cost sharing and co-payment obligations
• New therapy advances on the horizon
• Oncology provider work force forecasts and the future of cancer care
• What’s ahead on the public policy horizon
• Drug shortages and impact on treatment
• Impact to state Medicaid beneficiaries

• When

• Wednesday, October 24, 2012
  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

• Where

• Embassy Suites Hotel at the Chevy Chase Pavilion
  4300 Military Road NW
  Washington, District of Columbia 20015