Better outcomes for cancer diagnoses: 7 in 10 survive 5 years or more
Newsday • • health
Key Points:
- A new American Cancer Society report reveals that over 70% of cancer patients in the U.S. now survive five years or more post-diagnosis, up from about 50% in the 1970s, thanks to advances in treatments and screening.
- Significant survival improvements have been seen in high-risk cancers such as liver cancer, where five-year survival increased from 7% in the 1990s to 22%, and myeloma, which nearly doubled from 32% to 62%.
- Precision medicine, which targets specific genetic mutations driving cancer growth, along with immunotherapies, have been credited by experts for these gains, exemplified by the near doubling of the five-year survival rate for regional lung cancer from
