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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care Through the Oncology Workforce

Institute of Medicine; C-Change, Washington, DC; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; and City of Hope National Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Corresponding author: Alison P. Smith, BA, BSN, RN, C-Change, 1776 Eye St NW, 9th floor, Washington, DC 20006; e-mail: asmith@c-changetogether.org.

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There is a crisis in the oncology workforce. Health professionals involved in prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, palliative care, and research are experiencing significant workforce shortages that are expected to worsen. This is because of the rapidly growing population of Americans requiring cancer care, an aging oncology workforce, and inadequate numbers of newly trained workers. This mismatch between supply and demand for cancer care could threaten patient care, safety, and quality.

To help address the challenges in meeting the public's oncology care needs, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened the workshop "Ensuring Quality . . . [Click for More]

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