Cancer outcomes keep improving
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More Americans are surviving cancer than ever before, per a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research published on Wednesday.
🔢📈 By the numbers… There are 18 million cancer survivors living in the US today, or 5.5% of the overall population. In 1971, there were just 3 million cancer survivors living in the US, or 1.4% of the population.
- The five-year survival rate across all cancers increased from 49% in the mid-1970s to nearly 70% by 2017, the most recent year for which AACR data is available.
🇺🇸 The big picture: People are being diagnosed earlier and living longer due to better access to care, higher screening rates, and improved treatments. And one additional major factor? We’re not smoking as much.
But even though the death rate keeps declining, cancer is still the second most common cause of death in the US, killing ~600,000 Americans each year. Only heart disease leads to more deaths (800,000+/year).
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