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News

Communication Skills Training for Healthcare Professionals Working With People Who Have Cancer

Read this review from The Cochrane Collaboration.

New Resource: eLearning Modules on Implementation of EBPs

The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has launched e-learning modules to support capacity building on how to implement evidence-based practices in behavioural healthcare.

Pink Ribbon Survivors Network

The Pink Ribbon Survivors Network brings together cancer professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers and others), primary care physicians, breast cancer survivors, and community scholars to address the needs of breast cancer survivors and educate the professionals that care for them.

New App: Stories from Breast Cancer Survivors

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have launched Living Proof, a new iPad and iPhone app full of stories from African American breast cancer survivors. It's based on a decade of research, free, and easy to use. Learn more about this app.

Cancer Research Network Publishes Article in Journal of Cancer Survivorship

The article titled, Cancer Research Network: Using Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems as Platforms for Cancer Survivorship Research, can be read here.

Grid-Enabled Measures (GEM) D&I Paper Published in Implementation Science

The GEM portal was created to support behavioral and social scientists and other stakeholders as they advance their research and clinical practice through the use of standardized measures based on theoretically-based constructs. Read the abstract of the GEM D&I paper in Implementation Science.

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Gallagher!

Dr. Gallagher, professor of medicine and of bioethics and humanitites at the University of Washington School of Medicine, won the HOPE award at the 11th annual MITSS dinner. Read the full story

Archived News

Rapid, Responsive, Relevant (R3) Research: A Call for a Rapid Learning Health Research Enterprise

Read this article from Clinical Translational Medicine.

An Oncology Nurse Navigator Program Designed to Eliminate Gaps in Early Cancer Care

Click here to read the advanced print exclusive article.

The Problem With Pink: Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer

Read the article from The New York Times.

"Doctors Firing Back at Patients' Online Critiques"

Click here to read this report from The Boston Globe.

Study Shows Importance of Social Networks and Reduced Breast Cancer Mortality

Read the article from Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

"A Plan To Fix Cancer Care"

This article from the New York Times discusses the current state of cancer care and the five major changes that need to occur.

Writing Implementation Research Grant Proposals: Ten Key Ingredients

Read the article from Implementation Science.

Physicians' Empathy Raises Patients' Pain Tolerance

Read the article from Michigan State University.

Understanding and Influencing Multilevel Factors Across the Cancer Care Continuum Now Available from JNCI

Click here to read 13 papers on Multilevel Intervention research from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Cancer Patients Rarely Speak Up About Care Problems

Click here to read the article from Reuters, featuring a study conducted by Kathy Mazor from Meyers Primary Care Institute.

"Survivorship Care Plans in Research and Practice"

Click here to read this article from Salz et. al in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol. 62(2), 101-117.