This year in the United States, nearly 270,000 women will receive the devastating news that they have breast cancer. Many will choose breast-conserving surgery, commonly referred to as lumpectomy, wherein the surgeon seeks to remove the malignant tumor, while also preserving as much healthy breast tissue as possible.
It is estimated that, each year, as few as 2–3% of cancer patients enter clinical trials. In part I of this series, we discussed four key barriers to participation: physician barriers, protocol barriers, research team barriers, and insurance barriers. In part II, we will look at solutions to these barriers and how to implement them in the clinical setting.
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), 1,735,350 people were newly diagnosed with cancer in 2018. Of those, 65% are expected to achieve remission from their cancer 1.
Nearly three years after its introduction, the CMS's Oncology Care Model (OCM) remains the most ambitious and far-reaching initiative to shift cancer care toward value-based models.
As a physician-scientist, I have spent my career advancing research in women's health. I was a part of the planning effort to design and launch TMIST—the Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial.
Over the past decade there has been much consternation about overdiagnosis, the detection of cancers that would not have been diagnosed without screening.
Overdiagnosis is defined as the diagnosis of an asymptomatic cancer that would not have become clinically evident during the person's lifetime in the absence of screening or similar activities, such as diagnostic imaging tests that reveal “incidentalomas.”
Many have written and spoken about the goal of eliminating the effect of developing and delivering medical care in “silos.”
A University of California, Irvine patient with glioblastoma recently received an experimental cancer vaccine from the U.S. subsidiary of Brussels-based Epitopoietic Research Corp. (ERC-USA). While most cases of patients receiving experimental medical treatment are not particularly newsworthy, this one was.
Last week, the American Cancer Society released its annual Facts and Figures report, showing that we continue to make exceptional progress against cancer, most notably with a 27 percent decline in the death rate across all cancer types over the last 25 years.
