This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) highlights the NCI Healthcare Delivery Research Program’s interest in receiving applications focused on understanding and improving interprofessional teamwork and coordination during cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Background

Care coordination challenges are growing as expanding treatment options, multi-modality treatment regimens, and an aging population with comorbidities intensify demands for interprofessional team-based cancer care. Improving interprofessional, team-based cancer care was also identified as a priority in workshops focused on cancer care quality and the cancer care workforce convened by the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Planning and delivering comprehensive care during diagnosis and cancer treatment increasingly involves large, distributed teams often including patients, formal and informal caregivers, oncology specialists and advanced

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