ACCC Conference in San Antonio

Tara Szymanski of Rhode Island Hospital wins the drawing for a Pearlman Survivorship Kit (L-R: Bridgett Young, RN, OCN, Director of Oncology Services, Pearlman Cancer Center, Valdosta, GA; Tara Szymanski; Mary Ann Heddon, RN, OCN, Co-Developer Pearlman Survivorship Kit and Clinical Trials Coordinator, Pearlman Cancer Center, Valdosta, GA)

The ACCC conference was great! The attendees we spoke with represented a somewhat different population of cancer care providers than the nurses we met at the AONN conference last month. It seemed like a modestly larger percentage of the administrative personnel we met have begun developing or already have a functional survivorship program. And yet clearly, the majority of community cancer centers still do not have a meaningful program in place. We held a drawing to give away a Pearlman Survivorship Kit, and Tara Szymanski of Rhode Island Hospital was the lucky winner. We'll be checking in with Tara to see what we can do to help her implement the components of the survivorship kit over the coming months.