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Second, physician members must buy into the vision of the cancer program. Third, a financial expert is needed to design and review a billing plan with hospital and legal counsel. Last, a leadership committee needs to be developed to design and review performance criteria and patient outcomes so that physicians maintain their high quality cancer care. Table 3 demonstrates the eleven performance expectations for physicians to participate in the multidisciplinary disease site centers.

It is important to note that the private practice physicians who participate in the multidisciplinary centers do their own billing. An example would be a patient who presents with a rectal cancer.

If the multidisciplinary team decides that surgery would be performed first followed by chemoradiation, it is the surgeon who will bill the level 5 charge whereas the medical and radiation oncologist will be the two consultants.

Initially, we started with three multidisciplinary centers. Figure 6 demonstrates the multidisciplinary disease site centers that we have today at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. These centers have led to an increase in patient visits to the Cancer Center. In , there were approximately 60, patient visits whereas in , there were over , patient visits.

Patient self-referrals have also increased from 44 patients in to patients in The centers are staffed by a surgeon, medical and radiation oncologist with the necessary support staff and physician subspecialties. Program building also leads to the attraction of additional patients.

This is best exemplified by 7, mammograms performed in whereas 16, mammograms were performed in The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer realizes that cancer conferences are an integral part of improving the care of cancer patients. We have been successful in establishing a statewide community cancer center videoconferencing program.

The data for is pending. The first was the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, which opened in mid , and the second was the Delaware Biotechnology Institute at the University of Delaware, which opened in The success of this biomedical research initiative has led to prevention, early detection, and treatment of major diseases where the initial focus has been on cancer.

It has also resulted in cutting edge education and training for physicians, scientists, and students along with undergraduate and graduate internships. This includes a new undergraduate program of genetic counseling at the University of Delaware. Graham Cancer Center expansion. The objectives of the CTCR were to create a center focused on coordinating clinical and basic science effort in translational cancer research within the state of Delaware utilizing managed core and research facilities at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the University of Delaware.

Clinical partners would be those physicians at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, and research and educational partnerships would be developed with the A. This effort has led to matching Helen F. Graham Cancer Center clinicians with scientists to foster better cancer care in the state. Examples of some of these NIH-funded projects are illustrated in Figure 7. Some of the grant funded projects of the Center for Translational Cancer Research illustrating the collaboration between physicians at the Helen F Graham Cancer Center and scientists at the University of Delaware.

All of these efforts have led to a , square foot expansion of the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center which was dedicated in June and has doubled the space of the original Center. The expansion includes 6, square feet for the Center for Translational Cancer Research, which are the first ever wet labs on the campus of Christiana Care Health Systems. Figure 8 demonstrates that the vision has become a reality.

This vision will lead to the physical presence of the Delaware School of Medicine, which will be an extension of Jefferson Medical College and an expansion of the Center for Translational Cancer Research, which will be the Delaware Center for Cancer Biology. I believe that the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center program development along with statewide cancer control has transformed Delaware. Cancer mortality rates and the adult smoking rate in the state are dropping twice as fast as the national average.

Cancer incidence is declining among African-Americans three times faster than among Caucasians. Graham Cancer Center Outreach to underserved areas, increased minority recruitment to clinical trials and led to funding for the Cancer Genome Atlas Project.

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