Enhancing Community Capacity to Improve Value in Cancer Care

WATCH: Learn about the real people and cases behind our work. This in-depth report, “Cancer Inc.” first aired on Al Jazeera’s America Tonight.

FEATURED STUDIES

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Study: Engagement of Patients with Advanced Cancer (EPAC)

When patients with cancer discuss their care preferences with their clinicians and loved ones, they often have better experiences with their care and receive care that matches their wishes...

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Study: Community Health Workers and Symptom Assessment

Despite guidelines recommending routine screening of patient symptoms after a diagnosis of cancer, 90% of patients report undertreated symptoms such as pain...

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Study: Lay Health Workers Educate Engage and Activate Patients to Share (LEAPS)

Low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations with cancer are less likely to discuss their care preferences and more likely to have undertreated cancer symptoms...

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Study: Health Care Coach Support in Reducing Acute Care Use and Cost in Patients with Cancer

This randomized clinical trial will take what we learned from the Engagement of Patients with Advanced Cancer study and integrate it into a large cancer institute with a palliative care team...

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Study: Comparative Effectiveness Trial of Two Supportive Cancer Care Delivery Models for Adults with Cancer

Many clinics nationally use team-based approaches and technology-based approaches to deliver supportive cancer care.