Current Activities
The Committee is working to:
- Increase the proportion of cancer care providers and cancer patients with access to treatment information and evidence-based quality standards of care, taking into consideration cultural, literacy, and access needs
- Increase the proportion of cancer care providers and cancer patients with access to comprehensive information on clinical trials. Build a statewide clinical trials network supporting investigator-initiated trials and remove barriers to allow more clinicians to enroll patients easily into them
- Reduce the proportion of cancer patients who experience difficulty or delays in accessing treatment or who do not receive needed treatment
- Increase the proportion of cancer patients and their families who have access to support systems, including psychosocial support and evidence-based complementary medicine
- Increase the proportion of cancer patients who have access to pain and symptom management during treatment
- Increase to 28 the number of Connecticut hospitals that are accredited by the American College of Surgeons
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