Matt Brow (Vice-President, Public Policy & Reimbursement Strategy, McKesson Specialty Health) sits down with Selma Schimmel and The Group Room at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how it affects cancer care. The Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum was held in Washington D.C. [...]

David Eagle, MD sits down with Selma Schimmel and The Group Room at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum to discuss the difficulties in talking to patients about the cost and access to cancer care. The Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum was held in Washington D.C. on October 24, 2012 and was co-produced [...]

Joan Digirolamo, RN/Cancer Survivor and Ruth L. Lander, FACMPE/Practice Administrator/Cancer Survivor sit down with Selma Schimmel at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum These women and friends and work together at the Columbus Oncology and Hematology Associates in Columbus, Ohio. They inspire, but telling us how they continue to use their voice for life [...]

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The   Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Annual Meeting in Las Vegas was an exciting addition to our conference line-up for 2012. We produced our first 14 interviews for The Group Room really focusing on the issues facing community oncology clinics across the country. We spoke with Ted Okon on how the community oncology alliance is working [...]

This video highlights the cancer drug shortages currently happening in the United States of America.  It is unconscionable.  What is the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) doing to help? The Group Room interviews at the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) 2012 annual meeting in Las Vegas was made possible by the generous support of our members. VIDEO [...]

The Group Room sits down with Ted Okon, Executive Director of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), at the 2012 COA Annual Meeting. Ted talks about the challenges facing community oncology, where 4 out of 5 cancer patients are current treated and what COA is doing to advocate on their behalf. The Group Room interviews at [...]

The Group Room sits down with Rose Gerber, Director of Patient Advocacy for the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Patient Advocacy Network (CPAN), at the 2012 COA Annual Meeting. Rose talks about the mission of CPAN, how much it has evolved and what her vision is for the future of patient advocacy in the community oncology [...]

The Group Room sits down with Dr. David Eagle at the 2012 Community Oncology Alliance (COA) Annual Meeting. Dr. Eagle is a medical oncologist at the Lake Norman Hematology-Oncology in North Carolina and the current COA Board President. He gives an overview of the initiatives of COA for 2012 and beyond as well as why [...]