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    Cancer Research
    Cancer Research

    NCI Cancer Moonshot Funds Researchers

    After the dust settled from the presidential election, Congress returned to Washington to complete some remaining legislative work before the new year. Among the newly approve legislation, the 21st Century Cures Act was passed, and it aims to have major implications for expanding oncology research in the coming months and years.

    March 02, 2017
    Mortality Rates
    Cancer Research

    U.S. Cancer Mortality Rates Differ Across Country

    Although U.S. cancer rates between 1980 and 2014 have fallen overall, there are parts of the country that have not seen a decrease. This information was reported in a new study conducted by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The researchers found that cancer deaths fell 20 percent between 1980 and 2014, but that in some areas of the country the mortality rates increased.

    March 02, 2017
    Cervical Cancer Awareness and Education Saves Lives
    Cervical Cancer

    Cervical Cancer Awareness and Education Saves Lives

    January was cervical health awareness month, and the federal government, along with many advocacy groups, spent considerable time talking about early detection. According to the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), cervical cancer is largely preventable. If it’s detected early, it’s often curable too. Many experts say that the key to cervical cancer is vaccination and embracing the two tests used for early detection—Pap smears and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing.

    March 02, 2017
    FDA Announces Oncology Center of Excellence
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    FDA Announces Oncology Center of Excellence

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced, through the Office of Health and Constituent Affairs, that it has established the Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE). Longtime FDA official, Richard Pazdur, MD, has been named to lead the division as its first director. The OCE will make oncology “the first disease area to have a coordinated clinical review of drugs, biologics and devices across the agency’s three medical product centers,” according to the FDA.

    March 02, 2017
    New Web Tool Seeks to Advise Cancer Survivors on Managing Health
    Survivorship

    New Web Tool Seeks to Advise Cancer Survivors on Managing Health

    In a joint venture between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), a new web tool aims to provide better understanding for cancer survivors’ treatment options and what happens to them when treatment is over. The initiative, Springboard Beyond Cancer, is meant to empower survivors by providing them when education and resources about living beyond their cancer diagnosis. Springboard Beyond Cancer aims to address the following survivorship issues for patients.

    March 02, 2017
    Health Policy

    Palliative Care, Opioids, and Biomarkers Lead NIH's 2016 Research Year in Review

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has outlined it 2016 research year in review, detailing work done on atomic imaging for drug and protein interactions, biomarkers for prostate cancer, opioid efficacy, and the importance of palliative care. Often lauded as an example of the positive impact that federal agencies can have on Americans, NIH has received welcome support and funding from both sides of the aisle. The research, clinical trials, treatments, and cures that come out of the NIH are life changing and life saving, and all parties in congress recognize its importance.
    January 18, 2017
    Affordable Care Act (ACA)

    HHS Secretary Discusses ACA Repeal's Impact on Healthcare Quality

    In a speech at the National Press Club, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell explained that she was continuing the presidential administrations’ conversations about national health care. In it, the secretary expounded on the virtues of access, quality, and affordability in a national system capable of reaching millions of Americans.
    January 18, 2017
    Cancer Prevention

    FDA Expands Jurisdictional Authority Over All Tobacco Products

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gained control over all tobacco products and released new finalized rules in 2016 on the oversight of them. According to Mitch Zeller, JD, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, before the FDA’s final rule, certain tobacco products could be sold without any review of ingredients, the process of how they were made, and the potential dangers associated with them.
    January 18, 2017
    Advanced Practice Nursing (APRN)

    The VA Amends Regulations to Allow APRNs Greater Authority

    Scope of practice issues are essential in health care, and the lines are often starkly drawn. However, coordinated care with an emphasis on patient-centered care, through evidence-based research, is at the heart of how nurses practice. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recognized this, and, at the end of 2016, amended its rules to better reflect both the expertise of advanced practice nurses and the needed backlog and inefficacies of the VA.
    January 18, 2017
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    Cancer Health Policy

    New Law and Policies Will Fight Opioid Epidemic

    In July, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the U.S .Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), sending the bill to the president’s desk to be signed into law. With grant programs and community support initiatives, the bill will provide local authorities with resources to combat the opioid abuse epidemic. More than that though, the law is intended to change the way drug abuse is perceived.
    August 02, 2016
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    Alec Stone MA, MPA, Former ONS Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy

    Alec Stone served as the ONS director of government affairs and advocacy from September 2010–September 2023.
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