When cancer hits the streets

Cancer is among the leading causes of death for homeless adults. Compared with the general population, homeless people experience alarmingly high rates of mortality from cancer. Significant disparities are recognized to exist in cancer risk factors, screening, diagnosis, and treatment for homeless people. What is less evident—perhaps even slightly invisible to the public eye, and even to the eyes of the health care community—is what happens with these vulnerable people who are at the end of their lives.

Publication Date: 
2017
Volume: 
24
Issue: 
3
Journal Name: 
Current Oncology