Cancer Liaison Physician Focus Areas

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Cancer Liaison Physician Focus Areas
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Roles of the Cancer Liaison Physician

• Serve as the physician champion within the cancer
  program
• Serve as the liaison between the Commission on
  Cancer and the cancer program
• Serve as an agent of change in the community

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CLP Focus Areas

• Quality Improvement
• Advocacy
• American Cancer Society Partnership
• Clinical Trials
• Comprehensive Cancer Control
• Staging

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Quality Improvement

• Facilitate the utilization of the CoCs Quality
  Reporting Tools to promote quality care for
  breast and colorectal cancer

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Quality Improvement

• Use the CoCs Cancer Program Practice Profile
  Reports (CP3R) to promote quality care provision
  for breast and colorectal cancer patients
• Review at cancer conference
• Promote the use of NCCN guidelines
• Identify strengths and opportunities in care
  delivery and spearhead quality improvement
  initiatives

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Advocacy

• Work with the American Cancer Society Cancer
  Action Network (ACS-CAN) on legislative and
  regulatory issues

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Advocacy

• Identify challenges in cancer care provision
  that could be addressed through public policy and
  communicate with your elected officials
• Log on to the ACS CAN Web site www.acscan.org and
  register as a new member
• Log on to the ACS-CAN/CoC partner page at
  http//action.acscan.org/commission_on_cancer for
  additional resources

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American Cancer Society Partnership

• Bring ACS staff to the cancer committee table
  and facilitate ACS interaction with the cancer
  program staff

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American Cancer Society Partnership

• Schedule a planning meeting with key cancer
  program staff and ACS
• Invite ACS to cancer committee meetings
• Discuss partnering opportunities
• Be a champion for patient referral to the ACS

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Clinical Trials

• Increase enrollment of patients into clinical
  trials

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Clinical Trials

• Promote clinical trials as a standard of care
• Support clinical trials education for staff and
  the general public
• Become a member of ACOSOG and other cooperative
  groups
• Ensure that a listing of ongoing clinical trials
  offered is maintained and disseminated

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Comprehensive Cancer Control

• Present the state cancer plan to the cancer
  committee

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Comprehensive Cancer Control

• Become familiar with your states CCC program
  staff
• Identify specific goals and objectives from the
  plan to implement in your community
• Participate in on-line training at
  http//cancercontrolplanet.cancer.gov/
• Visit www.cancerplan.org

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Staging

• Ensure the cancer committee develops and
  implements a process to evaluate physician use of
  cancer stage and evidence-based national
  treatment guidelines in treatment planning for
  cancer patients

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Staging

• Develop strategies to ensure physicians are
  recording clinical and working stage
• Establish a standardized location where stage
  will be recorded
• Ensure physicians are utilizing staging
  information for the selection of appropriate
  treatment options
• Develop a method to compare assigned stage with
  the appropriate treatment
• Ensure the cancer committee develops and
  implements a process to evaluate physician use of
  stage and evidence-based treatment guidelines

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Staging Education Resources

• AJCC-developed Staging Moments presentations
  found on www.cancerstaging.net
• Collaborative Staging What Physicians Need to
  Know available at http//www.cancerstaging.org/sta
  ging/index.html
• CoC On-Line Education Center presentations at
  http//www.facs.org/cancer/webcast/index.html
• Presentations being released Spring, 2009 to
  support the 7th Edition , Cancer Staging Manual

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Web Conferences On-Line

• Recorded audio and slides from Web conferences
  available at http//www.facs.org/cancer/coc/clpweb
  conferences.html
• Supporting materials on CoC Web site at
  http//www.facs.org/cancer/coc/liaison.html

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• Thank You