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Cancer Care Close to Home - the UK Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network · Talking FACS

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  Welcome to Talking Facts and thank you for tuning in to Cancer Conversations On Talking Facts,
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  a podcast collaboration between the University of Kentucky,
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  Mary Cancer Center and the UK College of Agriculture,
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  Food and Environments Cooperative Extension Service.
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  We will share with you the latest developments in cancer prevention diagnosis,
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  treatment and research from the experts at Mary Cancer Center.
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  Kentucky's only National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center.
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  Talking Facts is hosted by the UK Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Program.
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  Our educators share research knowledge with individuals,
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  families and communities to improve quality of life.
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  Hello and welcome to Cancer Conversations On Talking Facts.
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  This is your host,
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  Doctor Jennifer Hunter,
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  assistant Director for Family Consumer Sciences Extension at the University of Kentucky.
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  Today,
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  I'm pleased to be joined by Doctor Timothy Mullett and Miss Sherry Toll with the University of Kentucky Mary Cancer Center.
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  Doctor Mullett.
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  I'd like to start with you.
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  Could you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your role with Marquee?
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  Hello,
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  I'm Tim Mullett.
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  I'm a uh thoracic surgeon at the University of Kentucky and have been here for 26 years and have enjoyed working with a lot of different aspects of patient care.
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  Most recently,
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  I've been involved in the Marquee Cancer Center affiliate network as the medical director.
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  And so I got the opportunity to work with physicians from across the state to be able to talk about how we can improve cancer care together.
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  And Sherry,
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  would you mind to introduce yourselves to our listeners?
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  Yes.
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  Good morning.
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  Uh Sherry Toll.
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  I'm the administrative director for the Mary Cancer Center affiliate Network.
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  I am going on my 35th year with uh with UK,
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  always with the Mary Cancer Center and I'm delighted to be with you this morning today.
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  I'm excited to talk about the UK Marquee Cancer Center Affiliate Network.
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  And um especially since our podcast is shared quite broadly across the state of Kentucky that we have reached into all 120 counties.
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  And today we're gonna talk about community hospitals and how they can collaborate with the UK Marquee Cancer Center.
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  And I wanted to start with just a basic question of,
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  can you tell us more or tell us exactly what is the UK Marquee Cancer Center Affiliate network?
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  The Market Cancer Center affiliate network is a collaboration between community hospitals and the Market Cancer Center,
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  which is an,
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  a National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center and it is also the academic medical Center at the University of Kentucky.
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  We started in 2006 with three hospitals.
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  And 15 years later,
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  we have 19 hospitals across the state and it's an opportunity for community hospitals to work with the Marquee Cancer Center to ensure high quality cancer care,
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  to provide patients with the option to be close to home for their cancer care if at all possible.
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  But if for whatever reason,
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  the care is too complex or there are procedures or treatments that are not available locally,
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  we are available to provide that service for them at the Marquee Cancer Center in Lexington and now Sherry,
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  when we're talking about the UK Marquee Cancer Center affiliate network,
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  y'all often use an acronym that is simply MC C A N said mccann.
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  Is that correct?
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  That is correct.
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  We are affectionately known as mccann and many of the folks that are familiar with our program will refer to us as mccann.
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  Excellent.
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  And so can y'all tell me a little bit?
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  Um How did mccann get started?
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  Originally,
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  we had a few of our medical oncologists that were providing outreach clinics at some of our sites and these community hospitals were really looking for a couple of things.
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  They were looking for a more formal relationship with an academic medical center.
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  And they also wanted to initially look for opportunities for additional education,
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  for their staff.
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  And this was primarily in the beginning for their nurses and they were very interested in how they could improve some of the educational opportunities that their nurses had.
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  And as we started working with them and looking at a more formal process we realized that there was an opportunity to develop a network of community hospitals that could not only be connected with the Market Cancer Center but could also be connected with one another.
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  And so in 2006,
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  we started with three hospitals,
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  Rockcastle Regional Hospital in Mount Vernon,
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  Saint Clair Regional Medical Center in Morehead,
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  and Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana.
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  And with those three hospitals,
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  we started providing professional education opportunities for their staff.
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  We offered community outreach and educational programs uh for their communities and um a more formalized relationship between the providers with those hospitals and with the Mar Cancer Center.
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  Excellent.
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  So,
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  Doctor Mullet,
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  you shared with me that Marquee Cancer Center is Kentucky's only National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center.
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  Why is the N C I Cancer Center designation?
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  Important?
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  Well,
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  thank you,
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  Jennifer.
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  That's a great question.
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  Our interest in maintaining uh the uh designation by the National Cancer Institute or the N C I is that it provides access to certain clinical trials to certain procedures that are only available to those designated programs.
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  It's a grant system that is offered through the National Institutes of Health and it recognizes the quality of research that's being done at an institution.
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  And we really feel that this is a uh a great way for us to collaborate with our community partners through the mccann.
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  Because what we can offer here at Mary Cancer Center in terms of advanced level research uh is something that they can't offer in their own facility.
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  And so our opportunity to be able to,
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  to share with our colleagues in the community,
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  the research that we have available for their parents is a unique opportunity and one that uh can only be offered at Market Cancer Center.
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  Excellent.
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  Can you tell me a little bit about how high quality cancer care is defined?
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  Sure,
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  you know,
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  we,
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  we felt for several years now that if a program wanted to be identified as an affiliate with Mary and that we wanted to make sure that they were being held to a standard,
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  that was an expectation for quality cancer care.
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  And so examining opportunities for how to define that,
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  we lean on the commission on cancer accreditation.
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  That's a program that's offered nationally and programs of all sizes can participate in the multiple standards that exist and quality measures uh which allow us to evaluate the quality of care that's being delivered.
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  It looks at the effectiveness of training of physicians and nurses.
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  It looks at the data that they collect and it looks at the at how they take care of patients and programs and services that are being offered.
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  And so one of the unique features of mccann is that we have the ability to monitor programs when they are striving to maintain accreditation by the commission on cancer.
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  So we help them with educational programs with other services,
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  with Consultative Services to be able to help them work through those standards so that they are maintaining that accreditation and can be really proud of that.
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  So that's a great resource for a community program to be able to offer accreditation by a national.
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  Uh And we help them move right on through.
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  So it's been uh excellent for all of our programs to be able to see the pride that develops in their own community and in their own facility.
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  and a chance for us to be able to help them uh maintain that excellent.
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  Excellent Sherri.
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  Both you and Doctor Mullett have talked a little bit about the services that um community hospitals receive as part of the marquee network.
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  Would you care to expand on that?
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  A little bit?
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  Sure.
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  I mentioned that we do offer um professional education and training programs for our sites and initially it was primarily for nurses,
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  but as we know,
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  cancer is a multidisciplinary uh disease.
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  And so as we have grown over the years,
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  our opportunities have expanded to,
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  to all kinds of health professional disciplines.
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  So we offer both web based and in person educational programs and opportunities for nurses,
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  P A S um social workers,
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  registered dieticians and other support staff at our sites.
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  We also offer shadowing and mentoring opportunities.
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  This,
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  this was suspended uh during the pandemic,
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  but we are starting to get back into inviting folks if one of our sites um hires a new social worker or hires a new chemotherapy nurse and would like to shadow somebody at Mary.
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  We provide the opportunity to do that.
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  We also have what we call an affiliate liaison program and that is staffed by nurse navigators nurse liaisons that can help our sites with streamlined referrals.
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  If they have patients that cannot uh be cared for locally.
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  At a hospital,
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  we have nurse liaisons that can work with the providers to make sure that that's a,
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  a smooth process for that patient to come to Lexington for either a second opinion or for a,
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  a type of treatment uh that isn't available locally.
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  And those nurse liaisons also talk with the patient so that the patient has someone before they even come to Mary that can assess any barriers,
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  talk to them about what to expect,
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  help them in,
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  in feeling more comfortable coming to Lexington.
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  And as you know,
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  in many of our rural communities,
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  Lexington is perceived as a big city and for somebody who's worked at UK for decades,
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  we know that sometimes it may be challenging for parking or um because of the different additions for buildings,
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  you're not sure where to go.
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  And so our affiliate liaison program can help uh patients feel a little bit more comfortable coming to market for the first time.
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  And then as doctor Mullet mentioned,
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  uh with our quality mandate for the mission on cancer,
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  we have a quality team of coordinators who work with our sites to provide that extra set of eyes and that expertise for their commission on Cancer Accreditation with our community outreach education and screening opportunities.
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  We work closely with our folks to make sure that,
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  that the communities are aware of all of the programs and services that are available at that community hospital and that they um uh are part of the Marquee affiliate network.
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  Thank you,
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  Doctor Mullett.
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  I think that through our conversation today,
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  it's been clear the benefits that are provided through the Marquee Cancer Center Affiliate Network.
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  Um As we wrap up today from a patient perspective,
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  why would a patient want to go to a hospital that is part of the marquee network?
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  So I think you touch on something that's important for us and that's that we really want to make sure that we provide value to those facilities.
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  Part of that is through education and part of it is through our assistance with their C O C accreditation.
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  We wanna make sure that the that we have value to market so that patients that need to be in those clinical trials that we offer,
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  have ready access to be able to get into that.
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  And then we provide advantages to the patient and by extension to the community.
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  So patients who participate in care at an affiliate network site know that should know that they have access to what we believe is a high standard of quality for a community program.
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  But they also have the backup of collaboration with our clinicians,
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  our physicians and experts in uh in Marquee Cancer Center because that's really what we want to provide.
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  We want that to be the first choice of care for a patient should be to go to their community program to know that when it's,
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  when the time is right,
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  Marquee Cancer Center stands next to them uh with a,
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  an ability to offer those specialized services in a seamless referral path through our uh nurse liaisons.
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  And to be able to make sure that if they have questions,
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  then they can communicate directly with us to be able to answer some of those complex questions that come up about patients.
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  Maybe that means the patient can be cared for directly in their own community with the assistance of information from our experts.
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  Maybe it means the patient needs to be transferred to Mary for a certain portion of their care and then returned to their community.
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  But our hope is that all of these patients find that they are uh getting better care through the collaboration between the community site and Marquee Cancer Center.
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  Excellent Doctor Mullet and Sherry.
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  Thank you so much for joining us today and helping our listeners learn more about how they can seek cancer care close to home,
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  that is supported through the UK Marquee Cancer Center affiliate network.
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  Um For our listeners,
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  our guests have provided links today.
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  If you would like to learn more about mccann,
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  that will be available in our show notes again.
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  Thank you all so much for joining us.
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  Thank you,
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  Jennifer.
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  Thank you Jennifer.
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