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Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Applauds Cancer Care ReportThe Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) commends the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for outlining the key opportunities and challenges facing cancer care providers and patients in its 2017 report on The State of Cancer Care in America. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170322005871/en/ "We applaud ASCO for their thorough investigation of progress and challenges in cancer care in America," said Julie Fleshman, JD, MBA, president and CEO of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. "We also note that the report calls out pancreatic cancer and other of the deadliest cancers as those for which the rate of progress has not matched other cancer types. We are working diligently to change those statistics." Pancreatic cancer patients are faced with the lowest five-year survival rate of any major cancer, only 9 percent. Though the pancreatic cancer community has seen rapid progress over the past decade, there must be greater urgency to fight the world's toughest cancer. As the leading pancreatic cancer organization, PanCAN is working to expedite progress, improve patient outcomes and double survival by 2020 through key initiatives like Precision PromiseSM and Know Your Tumor®. These initiatives align with the seven components that make up ASCO's "framework for patient-centered, evidence-based, high-quality cancer care." No. 1 on ASCO's list is engaged patients. For patients and their loved ones facing pancreatic cancer, the organization's Patient Central call center provides information, resources and hope to help patients navigate their disease, treatment options and supportive care. The framework also includes robust research efforts to develop new and more effective therapies - through evidence-based clinical trials. Our Patient Central Associates can guide callers through a personalized pancreatic cancer clinical trial search or patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals can search our comprehensive database using our online Clinical Trial Finder tool. Finally, ASCO's report emphasizes the need for translating evidence into clinical practice - and learning from each and every patient. PanCAN's Patient Registry facilitates collection of clinical and outcomes data from patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the U.S. and throughout the world. Pooling data will uncover meaningful trends and help define best practices moving forward. This strategy is in perfect alliance with ASCO's recommendation that: "all relevant stakeholders should prioritize the collection of patient-reported outcomes." "This report reinforces that our comprehensive strategy of privately funding and advocating for greater federal resources for pancreatic cancer research, providing leading-edge patient services and clinical initiatives and raising awareness nationwide is putting us on the right path to improve patient outcomes and double pancreatic cancer survival by 2020," added Fleshman. About the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) is accelerating the pace of research progress for one of the world's deadliest cancers. With an urgent mission to improve outcomes for pancreatic cancer patients and double survival by 2020, the organization, founded in 1999, executes a bold and comprehensive strategy to Wage Hope through research, patient services, advocacy and community engagement. The organization's visionary goals, world-class programs and services, extensive grassroots network, patient-focused outcomes and advisory board of scientific and medical leaders, provide the critical backdrop to help pancreatic cancer patients today and create transformational change for all patients in the future.
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