This blog is focused on providing people who have been diagnosed with either a rare cancer or with more than one cancer a place where they can keep up with information, research and discoveries that could impact their lives in the near term.

Rare cancers and multiple cancers have been ignored for too long. Research dollars are far too limited.

Please let us know if you hear of anything new that needs to be shared with our community.

Morbidity

Cancer ABCs

May 23, 2017

Burden of Rare Cancers

One In Five Cancers Is A Rare Cancer

Cancer ABCs

May 23, 2017

Burden of Rare Cancers

How rare are rare cancers? According to a new report, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, in the United States, about one in five cancer diagnoses is a rare cancer.……

Research concluded that approximately 20% of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States are diagnosed with a rare cancer. They also found that rare cancers make up a larger proportion of cancers diagnosed in Hispanic (24%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (22%) patients compared with non-Hispanic blacks (20%) and non-Hispanic whites (19%)……

Rare cancers are diagnosed at later stages leading to increased morbidity and decreased survival.......

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