About American Cancer Society Project ECHO
The American Cancer Society works to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
In 2018, the American Cancer Society and the ECHO Institute at the University of New Mexico partnered to launch the first American Cancer Society ECHO. Since the launch of Project ECHO in 2003 over 120,000 learners from 25,000 organizations in 158 countries have participated in an ECHO session.
About the ACS Project ECHO Superhub
ACS serves as the thirty-ninth “Superhub” from around the world. Organizations with superhub status are experienced ECHO partners authorized to recruit, train, and support new partners. Superhubs host Partner Launch Trainings and provide technical assistance and mentoring to new partners to grow and sustain their ECHO programs. ACS became a Superhub in 2023 and will launch over 20 programs by the end of 2024.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive cancer – regardless of income, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or where they live.
We identify the most promising avenues for research to address what is not known today and act on what is proven to work and ensure everyone has an opportunity to benefit.
About the ECHO Model
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a learning framework that reaches across disciplines for sustainable and profound change. ECHO participants engage in a virtual community with peers and subject matter experts and through didactic and case-based presentations share support, guidance, and feedback fostering an “all teach, all learn” approach and collective understanding of how to disseminate and implement best practices. Project ECHO has been recognized nationally and globally and aims to create self‐sustaining organizations and freely share access to quality and cost-effective care.
The heart of the ECHO model provides training and mentorship to transform and sustain strong health systems where every person has fast access to the highest quality of care.
Key Features of Project ECHO
- AMPLIFICATION: Use technology to leverage scarce resources
- BEST PRACTICES: Share best practices to reduce disparities
- CASE-BASED LEARNING: Clinical care providers present de-identified patient cases to the expert team and their peers to discuss treatment strategies, and learn from each other in a peer-to-peer learning health network
- DATA: Evaluate, monitor and improve outcomes
To learn more, visit the ECHO Institute
Research
We have invested more than $5 billion in research since 1946.
Cancer Screening and Early Detection
We publish guidelines for health care professionals and lay people alike, to help individuals know what cancer screenings are right for them.
Survivorship
We are transforming the care and long-term health of approximately 17 million cancer survivors in the US by finding innovative ways to mitigate the harmful long-term effects from cancer and cancer treatment.
Cancer Prevention
We fund and conduct research to discover how people can take steps to reduce their cancer risk, and provide information on the causes of cancer – from environment to lifestyle choices to genetics, and more.
We work to encourage healthy lifestyle choices – like avoiding tobacco and alcohol, eating healthy, and being physically active – that could help to eliminate approximately 50% of deaths from cancer.
Access to Care
We believe no one should die of cancer because they cannot get the quality care they need. We work to ensure that individuals in every community have access to cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.
We are working to increase screening and reduce cancer risk for communities who have been marginalized.
Patient and Caregiver Services
We provide people with cancer and caregivers with resources that can help improve and save lives.
Our cancer experts provide answers and support through phone, video calls, and online live chat through our 24/7 helpline at 1-800-227-2345 and our cancer.org website.
Contact the ECHO Team
To learn more about ACS Project ECHO, please send us an email at echo@cancer.org.