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"I see the liver cancer heatmap being used as a source of networking between institutions and as a way to help patients find a medical facility to help navigate their care closer to home."
Improving patient access to clinical trials has long been a vexing issue for clinicians and patient advocates. Although trials are the backbone of cancer research, participation rates have remained unchanged in recent decades. As a result, more attention is being paid to the lack of diversity in clinical trial populations. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) held its 2019 Cancer Policy …
ACCC 36th National Oncology Conference featured speaker author and journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams held the packed room rapt with the story of her patient experience. She was diagnosed and treated for stage II melanoma in 2010. One year later, the cancer returned. This time the melanoma was stage IV. At that time, patients with stage IV melanoma had about a five percent chance of surviving five …
In this guest blog post, learn how 2018 ACCC Innovator Award recipient Ochsner Health System, Ochsner Cancer Institute of New Orleans is helping cancer patients access early-phase clinical trials close to home. Age-adjusted mortality rates from cancer are higher in Louisiana than the national average. Every day, 70 Louisianans receive a cancer diagnosis, and 23 Louisianans die of cancer. In April …
A report released last week at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) annual national policy forum in Washington, D.C., finds that only 27 percent of patients have access to clinical trials close to where they are receiving treatment. In this new landscape report, “Barriers to Patient Enrollment in Therapeutic Clinical Trials for Cancer,” existing key research and knowledge on …
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