A new, comprehensive resource guide from Intellisphere's Oncology Specialty Group aims to help cancer patients navigate the challenges they face.
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Cancer Patients Now Have Access to Comprehensive Oncology Care Guide
Support and Assistance Guide for Cancer Patients
Plainsboro, NJ// Feb. 3, 2010 — Patients with cancer face physical, mental, financial, and emotional challenges. A new, comprehensive resource guide from Intellisphere’s Oncology Specialty Group—the —aims to help patients navigate each of these challenges.
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The compiles resources for nearly every aspect of care and support need oncology patients face, and it includes the following key sections:
Contact: Christin Melton
“A cancer diagnosis is tough to deal with on so many levels, so a resource that truly helps patients navigate every aspect of their care fills a vast need for oncology patients,” said Peter Ciszewski, President of Intellisphere’s Oncology Division. “We believe this resource will also be of tremendous value to oncologists, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals in their efforts to provide patients with the best of the best resources at their disposal.”
Support and Assistance Guide for Cancer Patients
Oncology Net Guide
OncNurse
Pharmacy Times
MD Net Guide.
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The was mailed recently to readers of , , , and Christin Melton, an editor with Intellisphere, says she receives daily calls from pharmacists, social workers, hospital directors, patients, nurses, radiologists, and physicians from across the country praising the and asking for additional copies. “We are delighted at the overwhelming response to the ,” says Melton. “A lot of people are surprised that there is no charge for copies, but our goal is to help connect as many patients as possible with the resources they need.”
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Oncology professionals and others who work with people who have cancer consider the a valuable tool for patients. A leader of a Florida breast cancer support group wrote, “N
ewly diagnosed/treated patients often show up at our meetings in fairly serious mental and financial turmoil. What we liked about the booklet was its extensive list of resources. Anybody who felt she might be drowning would certainly feel she had been handed a lifeline to see that there are so many resources available.” Another requestor called it “one of the most concise and helpful booklets I’ve ever seen for helping cancer patients receive assistance.”
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In addition to fulfilling individual requests, the Intellisphere Oncology Specialty Group plans to mail 100 copies to all 41 NCI-designated National Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States, to the 80-plus advocacy groups highlighted in the publication, and to several other cancer treatment centers across the United States. Ciszewski said his group plans to update the and redistribute it to readers at the end of the year, with the ultimate aim of making it an annual endeavor.
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To receive copies of the in print or PDF form, e-mail your request to the Intellisphere Oncology Specialty Group at cmelton@onclive.com or call Christin Melton or Jason Broderick at (609) 716-7777.
Please also visit our Oncology Reimbursement resource center at
http://www.hcplive.com/oncology_reimbursement
About Intellisphere
Intellisphere is a leading provider of healthcare publishing, research, information, and education for the medical industry. Operating within both traditional and digital mediachannels that support the dissemination of relevant content on healthcare technology and clinical research, our company serves the needs of hundreds of thousandsof general practitioners, specialists, nurses, pharmacists, and managed care professionalsthrough an extensive suite of magazines, journals, e-mail databases, websites, events, and personal meetings.
Oncology & Biotech News, Oncology Net Guide, Contemporary Oncology, Oncology Net Guide: Nurses’ Edition, The American Journal of Managed Care
Pharmacy Times
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With publications such as , , , and HCPlive.com as part of the publishing group, Intellisphere reaches more than a half million healthcare professionals across nearly all segments of care.