{"id":2791,"date":"2017-07-19T03:37:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T19:43:35","slug":"one-in-five-us-cancer-patients-are-diagnosed-with-a-rare-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/one-in-five-us-cancer-patients-are-diagnosed-with-a-rare-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"One in five US Cancer Patients Are Diagnosed with a Rare Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2325\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2325\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Depositphotos_4755468_xs-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"1 in 5 US Cancer Patients Are Diagnosed with a Rare Cancer\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Depositphotos_4755468_xs-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Depositphotos_4755468_xs.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 in 5 US Cancer Patients Are Diagnosed with a Rare Cancer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rare cancers are more common than you think. As a group, they make up about 20% of all cancer diagnoses. However, each specific type of rare cancer is still very dangerous because the symptoms are often misdiagnosed. At <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\">Issels\u00ae<\/a>, we often see patients whose rare cancer went undiagnosed despite several rounds of doctor visits and tests.<\/p>\n<p>The American Cancer Society recently shed light on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/latest-news\/rare-cancers-present-unique-challenges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequency of rare cancer<\/a> diagnoses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rare cancer is defined by annual diagnoses in less than 6 out of 100,000 people<\/li>\n<li>71% of all cases in people under 20 years old are rare types<\/li>\n<li>39% of all cases in people 20 to 39 years old are rare types<\/li>\n<li>Younger people have better survival rates for rare cancer than older people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Together, Learning More About Rare Cancers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In some cases, standard cancer treatment fails to work as well as it does for common types of cancer. On the other hand, the ACS notes that innovations in rare cancer treatment often help scientists develop better treatment for all types of cancers.<\/p>\n<p>After a rare cancer diagnosis, it can be difficult to find information if your physicians are not very familiar with the disease. We specialize in advanced stage cancer treatment at Issels\u00ae, including rare types of the disease that are not responding well enough to standard therapies.<\/p>\n<p>At Issels\u00ae, we offer individualized treatments including <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\/cancer-vaccines\/\">cancer vaccines<\/a> developed using the patient\u2019s own autoimmune cells. Such treatments, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\/treatment-summary\/\">immunotherapy<\/a>, are helping patients with standard therapy\u2013resistant and advanced stages of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about our integrative immunotherapy approach to cancer treatment on our website or <a href=\"http:\/\/66.135.32.155\/issels\/Questionnaire\/request-issels-info.aspx\">contact us<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare cancers are more common than you think. As a group, they make up about 20% of all cancer diagnoses. However, each specific type of rare cancer is still very dangerous because the symptoms are often misdiagnosed. At Issels\u00ae, we often see patients whose rare cancer went undiagnosed despite several rounds of doctor visits and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/one-in-five-us-cancer-patients-are-diagnosed-with-a-rare-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One in five US Cancer Patients Are Diagnosed with a Rare Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,580,537,205,216,538,2,1],"tags":[279,304,539,282,252,255,609],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research","category-cancer-treatment","category-cancer-vaccine","category-immuno-oncology","category-immunotherapy","category-immunotherapy-for-cancer","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-advanced-cancer-therapies","tag-advancement-in-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-immunotherapy","tag-cancer-news","tag-cancer-research-advancement","tag-personalized-cancer-treatment","tag-rare-cancer-diagnosis"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}