More than 170,000 people are alive despite being diagnosed with cancer more than 25 years ago
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New report from Macmillan Cancer Support celebrates advances in cancer treatment and care but warns more needs to be done to cope with increasing demand.
More than 170,000 people are living with cancer in the UK who were diagnosed in the 1970s and 1980s, according to new research released by Macmillan Cancer Support and Public Health England’s National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS).
In a new report Cancer: Then and Now out today, Macmillan reveals for the first time the number of cancer survivors from the 1970s and 1980s in the UK. People on average are twice as likely to survive at least ten years after being diagnosed with cancer than they were at the start of the 1970s. These improvements in survival are partly due to earlier diagnosis – by way of screening programmes and advances in diagnostic tools, as well as more refined treatment.
The report compares the diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer then, to the experiences of cancer in the 2010s. While docume...
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