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Treating Small-Population Cancers in the Community Setting
Caring for patients with less common cancers presents unique challenges for community–based cancer care providers...... Other health professionals, including nurses, social workers, and pharmacists, see these diseases less frequently and need information to better support the physician and the patient...
... Physicians treating small-population cancers have limited time and resources to incorporate emerging clinical data into practice. Al B. Benson III, MD, FACP
Immediate Past President
Facts about Small-Population Cancers:
There is no single, widely accepted definition but most commonly, small-population cancers involve less than 20,000 cases annually. These cancers are sometimes referred to as low incidence cancers or forgotten cancers.
Small-population cancers are those less frequently occurring cancers in which incidence rates are not as high as other cancers. According to NCI SEER data, examples of small-population cancers would include Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), T-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and cancers of the small intestine with each having incidences of only 1-2 cases per 100,000 people annuallly.
ACCC Goals:
- Improve the quality of care for patients with small-population cancers
- Raise awareness among the public and healthcare providers about the challenges presented by small-population cancers, and
- Assess the barriers to treatment and effective practices within the community setting.
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