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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Julia Musto

More Americans are surviving deadly cancer

Cancer survival rates in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been since the 1970s.

In 1970, only half of patients lived past five years. Now, at least 70 percent of U.S. cancer patients are surviving for at least five years following their diagnosis, according to new data collected by the American Cancer Society between 2015 and 2021.

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