How Many Patients Have You Cared For With My Type of Cancer? : Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

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How Many Patients Have You Cared For With My Type of Cancer?

Cancer is not just one disease – it’s a collection of more than 100 different diseases, each with its own characteristics, its own set of treatments and its own challenges. In general, the more of a particular kind of cancer a center treats, the better that center tends to be in treating that type of cancer.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is a major referral center that treats all types of cancers in adults and children (through the Vanderbilt Childhood Cancer Program at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt). Here are some details about our patient volumes and links to additional information:

Our Cancer Registry records and follows new cancer cases that we see. The number of new cases entered into our Registry has grown from 2,265 in 1999 to 3,957 in 2006 (the most complete year of available information). That’s an increase of 75%.
We currently have more than 20,000 patients under active follow up by our Cancer Registry.
The number of unique patients who receive treatment in our main Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic and our Breast Center (Vanderbilt Breast Center at One Hundred Oaks) continues to grow. In Fiscal Year 2008, unique patients exceeded 13,000, up from 10,000 in FY2005. In the first six months of FY09 (July 2008-Dec. 2009), we saw 9,200 unique patients. These patients include those seeing medical oncologists, hematologists, surgical oncologists, gynecologic oncologists and undergoing bone marrow/stem cell transplant.
Our cancer-related adult inpatient discharges exceed 5,000 annually, and our pediatric cancer inpatient admissions exceed 1,000.
In 2008, more than 1,600 patients were treated with radiation therapy at our main campus or our satellite centers in Clarksville, Tenn., and Franklin, Tenn.

Types of cancer we treat most

In 2006, the top five types of cancer that we treated, accounting for nearly half of our new cancer cases:

Prostate cancer: learn more
Lung cancer: learn more
Breast cancer: learn more
Melanoma: learn more
Kidney cancer: learn more

Comparison of our new cancer case counts by year 2000-2006

Cancer Site	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Lip	2	4	6	3	3	7	10
Tongue	40	47	40	50	62	52	54
Salivary glands	12	14	19	10	10	14	9
Gum & hard palate	14	21	18	10	20	18	20
Floor of mouth	9	12	6	6	16	9	21
Buccal mucosa	9	9	9	12	8	10	15
Oropharynx	29	26	38	36	31	45	51
Nasopharynx	6	10	6	12	12	7	8
Hypopharynx	7	15	5	11	9	9	7
Other oral cavity	6	2	2	4	1	4	4
Esophagus	37	31	30	31	39	39	34
Stomach	18	25	24	14	20	34	38
Small Intestine	9	13	15	13	10	15	10
Colon	115	122	146	111	95	131	115
Rectum/Anus	50	53	78	62	80	98	88
Liver	48	54	49	54	72	71	64
Gallbladder	14	17	11	24	14	20	20
Pancreas	57	74	76	87	60	71	68
Other digestive tract	8	22	12	13	17	17	21
Nasal cavities, sinuses, ear	6	12	21	13	14	16	18
Larynx	51	60	51	44	74	73	71
Trachea, bronchus, lung-small	39	29	27	44	36	41	46
Trachea, bronchus, lung-NSC	236	259	255	223	260	265	254
Other respiratory	6	20	12	5	5	8	8
Bone	40	26	34	44	45	55	35
Connective & soft tissue	83	69	63	77	84	89	77
Malignant melanoma	120	153	143	174	206	215	264
Other skin	24	24	21	10	13	7	14
Breast, female & male	280	285	248	264	258	299	328
Cervix	80	85	107	46	32	40	40
Endometrium (corpus uteri)	79	76	67	56	72	70	85
Ovary	49	40	54	43	43	49	48
Other female genital organs	49	45	52	42	41	35	49
Prostate	288	341	388	397	451	592	683
Testis	27	40	25	27	36	20	26
Other male genital organs	5	9	9	12	4	7	9
Bladder	124	124	146	143	165	165	183
Kidney	97	117	138	167	184	216	165
Other urinary organs	20	20	16	9	24	28	22
Eye	1	6	2	6	2	2	2
Brain	67	80	73	65	73	91	92
Other CNS	4	4	4	4	6	11	5
Thyroid	57	74	94	80	103	138	138
Other endocrine	12	9	4	8	11	15	14
Hodgkin's	32	21	35	38	29	33	27
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas	141	171	143	138	142	167	152
Plasma cell tumors	29	39	44	55	60	67	77
Lymphocytic leukemias	44	38	51	52	62	56	63
Myeloid leukemias	49	77	67	70	89	73	62
Other leukemias	14	15	11	9	7	8	8
Myeloprolif. & myelodysplas.	0	24	19	32	50	27	27
Other hematopoietic diseases	8	14	20	16	21	22	23
Other & ill-defined sites	1	0	1	2	0	2	2
Unknown primary	32	53	43	45	39	38	39
Benign/borderline brain, cns	0	0	0	0	122	153	144
Total Cases:	2684	3030	3078	3023	3442	3864	3957

Comparison Case Counts Primary System: All Class of Case 2000 - 2006

Primary System	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Head and Neck	134	160	149	154	172	175	199
Digestive System	356	411	441	409	407	496	458
Respiratory System	338	380	366	329	389	403	397
Bone, Skin/Soft Tissue	267	272	261	305	348	366	390
Breast, female & male	280	285	248	264	258	299	328
Reproductive Orgams	257	246	280	187	188	194	222
Male Sites	320	390	422	436	491	619	718
Urinary System	241	261	300	319	373	409	370
Central Nervous System	72	90	79	75	81	104	99
Endocrine System	69	83	98	88	114	153	152
Lymphatic System	173	192	178	176	171	200	179
Hematopoietic	144	207	212	234	289	253	260
Other & ill-defined sites	1	0	1	2	0	2	2
Unknown primary	32	53	43	45	39	38	39
Benign/borderline brain,cns	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	122	153	144
Total Cases:	2684	3030	3078	3023	3442	3864	3957