Groundbreaking initiative seeks new answers in breast cancer care.
For the past few years, researchers at several of the nation's large academic cancer centers have been tracking the care of breast cancer patients to monitor whether care is in accordance with standardized guidelines, and to continually assess what quality indicators are most critical to improved outcomes. It's important work, but largely left out of the equation are community centers where roughly 85% of cancer is being treated in this country. However, a groundbreaking initiative under way in Michigan is attempting to get around this problem by doing the same type of data collection and tracking at select community centers.
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