AONN+ Conference Abstracts

Invasive breast cancer is the most common cancer in females, accounting for approximately one-third of all invasive cancers diagnosed annually in the Greater Bay Area and in the state.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, with 81% of lung cancer diagnoses directly linked to smoking.

Sunrise Hospital is a tertiary medical center for rural outlying regions including northwest Arizona and southeast Nevada (NW-AZ/SE-NV).

More than 80,000 new diagnoses of head and neck cancers are projected in the United States for 2019.

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer after skin cancer and the second leading cause of death of women in the United States after lung cancer.

The National Lung Screening Trial enrolled 53,454 people who were at high risk for lung cancer from August 2002 to April 2004.

Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome and Lynch syndrome (HBOC/LS) are the 2 most common inherited cancer predisposition syndromes.

Research shows that multidisciplinary meetings/conferences reduce time to treatment and improve patient outcomes, but what about utilizing a multidisciplinary survivorship team?

The complexities of cancer care can be reduced for patients and families through patient navigation.

The Netcare Breast Care Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, has been operational and running as a multidisciplinary breast care center since 2000.