The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship launched a nationwide competition for the 2017 Ellen L. Stovall Award for Innovation in Patient-Centered Cancer Care, an opportunity for patients and survivors to recognize exceptional providers who are transforming cancer care.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
