Research Catalog

Title

Improving cancer diagnosis and care : patient access to oncologic imaging and pathology expertise and technologies : proceedings of a workshop / Erin Balogh, Margie Patlak, and Sharyl J. Nass, rapporteurs ; National Cancer Policy Forum, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.

Author

Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Care: Patient Access to Oncologic Imaging and Pathology Expertise and Technologies (Workshop) (2018 : Washington, D.C.), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Publication

• Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Balogh, Erin
• Patlak, Margie
• Nass, Sharyl J.
• National Cancer Policy Forum (U.S.), issuing body. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Care Services.
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Health and Medicine Division.

Description

xx, 72 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cancer therapies are transforming the landscape of cancer diagnosis and care. These innovations have contributed to improved outcomes for patients with cancer, but they have also increased the complexity involved in diagnosis and subsequent care decisions. To examine opportunities to improve cancer diagnosis and care, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine developed a two-workshop series. The first workshop, held on February 12-13, 2018, in Washington, DC, focused on potential strategies to ensure that patients have access to appropriate expertise and technologies in oncologic pathology and imaging to inform their cancer diagnosis and treatment planning, as well as assessment of treatment response and surveillance. This publication chronicles the presentations and discussions at the workshop."--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Cancer > Diagnosis
• Diagnostic imaging
• Neoplasms > diagnostic imaging
• Cancer > Diagnosis > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Neoplasms > diagnosis
• Therapeutics
• Cancer > Patients > Congresses
• Diagnostic imaging > Congresses
• Cancer > Treatment > Congresses
• Education
• Patients

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-63).

Contents

Workshop overview : current diagnostic challenges in cancer care -- Ensuring the quality and accessibility of diagnostic expertise and technologies -- Quality improvement efforts -- Integration and collaboration of specialties -- Wrap-up -- Appendix A: Statement of task -- Appendix B: Workshop agenda.

ISBN

• 9780309478281
• 0309478286

OCLC

• on1056462473
• 1056462473
• SCSB-9293169

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries