Guest Editorial

Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s model of care ensured patient care amid wildfires
Guest Editorial

Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s model of care ensured patient care amid wildfires

Over the past five years, Cedars-Sinai Cancer has built an integrated, regional system designed to provide cancer care close to where patients live and work. This model of care, directed by an academic medical center to patients at the community level, proved to be the best possible approach to supporting patients in our 11-million-person catchment area during the worst fire disaster in California history. 
Moving from mandate to mission: Community outreach and engagement at NCI-designated cancer centers
Guest Editorial

Moving from mandate to mission: Community outreach and engagement at NCI-designated cancer centers
“COE is broken.”

Acting Director Dr. Krzysztof Ptak’s words reverberated throughout the meeting room—and the heads of several of us—during the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Centers update on the final day of the 2024 Association of American Cancer Institutes/Cancer Center Administrators Forum Annual Meeting in Chicago.
An elephant in the room: Grief in young adults with cancer
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An elephant in the room: Grief in young adults with cancer

Young adults with cancer are starting to break the silence about grief. Most people think of grief following the death of a loved one, but grief can accompany any event that disrupts or challenges our sense of normalcy or ourselves.1 During this first week of December, National Grief Awareness Week, we can raise awareness about grief in young adults with cancer to help ensure that no one grieves alone.