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read moreCancer survivors replace cancer victims in U.S.
William Atkins
Sunday, 13 March 2011 00:22
A new CDC report found that the number of cancer survivors in the United States has increased by nearly four times from 1971 to 2007. Cancer victims are more likely now to be called cancer survivors.
It reports that the number of cancer survivors in the United States increased from 3.0 million to 9.8 million from 1971 to 2001, a span of thirty years.
In addition, the number of cancer survivors was 11.4 million in 2006 and 11.7 million in 2007, making the increase from 3.0 million to 11.7 million in 36 years.
Data was take by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results programs. The data comes from nine U.S. cancer patient registries.
The data indicates that about one in twenty adults are cancer survivors in 2007 within the United States.
The report implies that the reason for this dramatic increase of surviving cancer is because of (1) earlier detection and (2) better treatment.
Other information provided by the CDC report include that cancer is most common in people 65 years and older. Specifically, about 60% of the cancer survivors are of this age group.
Page two reports on some specifics from the CDC report on cancer survivors.
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