What is integrated cancer care?
Integration of cancer care means that physicians and other healthcare professionals of different disciplines work together in a team approach to diagnose and treat the cancer patient. This team approach provides the greatest variety of therapeutic alternatives, ensuring that each patient receives the personalized treatment that is right for his or her disease.
Where is integrated care available?
Historically, the type of integration of services described above was only available in the largest multi-specialty clinics or at major academic centers. This often meant adding the stress of travel to the anxiety of treatment. Now, physicians across the United States are joining together to provide the same services in the comfort and convenience of a community medical practice.
Featured Study: Utilization Trends in Prostate Cancer Therapy.
We determined therapeutic trends in the management of adenocarcinoma of the prostate, and in the case of intensity modulated radiation therapy we investigated whether site of service influenced those trends.
Utilization Trends in Cancer Therapy. [PDF]
CMS FINAL RULE PRESERVES ACCESS TO CANCER CARE
This represents an enormous victory for those who seek to preserve access to high quality, integrated cancer care throughout the country. Read more...
This represents an enormous victory for those who seek to preserve access to high quality, integrated cancer care throughout the country. Read more...
"I am able to stay active in my community and I am able to receive quality care from people who know me and that I trust...when visiting bigger facilities, I often felt lost...like I was another statistic"
Read more about what patients have to say about integrated care.
Read more about what patients have to say about integrated care.
This website is sponsored by Access to Integrated Cancer Care, an informal advocacy group comprised of multi-specialty physician group practices organized for the purpose of promoting and protecting the fundamental right of patients with cancer to access an integrated and comprehensive program of diagnosis, treatment, comfort and support of the highest quality.
