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Patient Driven Quality Breast Cancer Care: Be Educated

Patient-Driven Quality breast cancer care means making sure every option is offered. Become an important part of your “treatment team.” VISIT THE BREAST CANCER SCHOOL FOR PATIENTS: http://www.breastcancercourse.org LIST OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTORS: http://www.breastcancercourse.org/bre... FOLLOW US: Facebook:   / breast-cancer-school-for-patients-95851914...   _____________________________________ Become a breast cancer “expert” Breast cancer care is complicated, but advancing by leaps and bounds every day. This is the high-quality care you hear about on TV and read about online. But unfortunately, there can be barriers between you and quality care in your own medical community. Our innovative Breast Cancer School for Patients was created to begin a “Patient-Driven Quality Movement” in breast cancer care. When you are educated, at diagnosis, by breast specialists, you will know about the key topics and recent advances in breast cancer care. Only then can you make sure you are getting the highest quality care. What is “quality” breast cancer care? Quality breast cancer care simply means achieving the best possible outcomes while minimizing the toxicities of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Your goal is to get only the specific treatments you need to get the best outcome while avoiding over-treatment. Cutting edge advances are an important part of getting the very best breast cancer care. For example, it is quite common for patients to not be offered genetic testing and genomic assays that could have helped their cancer care. Quality care requires dedicated breast physicians, access to cutting edge technologies and an informed patient working with their breast cancer team. Why patients must seek quality cancer care? The best breast cancer care requires a close, long-term relationship with your physicians. Asking great questions about your care engages your doctors in who you are and what your needs are. This is be the best way to work together to make the best breast cancer treatment decisions. Patient-Driven Quality Breast Cancer Care should begin with you learning exactly what you need to know and the questions to engage your breast cancer team. Despite our best efforts, the medical community sometimes doesn’t do enough to guide patients about how to get the very best breast cancer care. The Breast Cancer School for Patients was created to fill this patient information gap and specifically teach you to be your own expert in breast cancer. We encourage other organizations and institutions to do the same. What barriers exist to quality cancer care? Traditionally, breast cancer treatment is a physician-to-patient flow of information and physician directed decision making. One barrier that exists is that new advances in imaging, genetics, genomics, and treatments can take years to filter to and be implemented by breast cancer physicians. Another barrier is that your physicians are human. They can have a bad day where they are pressed for time, running late seeing patients, or distracted by emergencies in the hospital. This can lead your breast specialists to forget to ask you important questions or order a test that could have helped with your care. This is why patient-driven care can make sure everything is on the table when you make key treatment decisions for your breast cancer. You should know exactly what is going on and what questions to ask. The Breast Cancer School for Patients feels it should be our job as breast cancer specialists to teach you to be your own advocate. What is the solution? The Breast Cancer School for Patients (www.breastcancercourse.org) has organized the important topics and treatment choices you will face. We give you short video lessons about each cancer treatment topic, and provide you the essential course notes and questions to ask your doctors in their language. We also give you doctor selected links and references that lead you to the best websites. Our innovative approach easily teaches you to make the best treatment decisions. Learn as little or as much as you desire about any breast cancer subject on our educational website. Register for our newsletter & “Cutting Edge” questions Sign-up for our breast health newsletter at www.breastcancercourse.org. Once registered, we’ll immediately email you our complete list of “Cutting Edge” questions to engage your breast surgeon, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist. We help you get quality breast cancer care in your community.