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Cancer care planning and quality improvement: 2 for the price of 1?
Author(s) -
Garcia Sofia F.,
Ganz Patricia A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.27861
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical oncology , survivorship curve , cancer , quality (philosophy) , family medicine , oncology , medical physics , philosophy , epistemology
This editorial comments on 2 companion articles that present the preliminary results of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) breast cancer registry (BCR) pilot program. The ASCO BCR demonstrates how registry data can be collected prospectively for quality assessment purposes as well as the creation of treatment and survivorship care plans in a way that is acceptable to oncology clinicians and patients.