Chance Of Surviving Once-Deadly Cancers Doubled Since 1970s
Aug 13th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Health UpdatesPeople diagnosed with breast, bowel and ovarian cancers, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, are twice as likely to survive at least 10 years after diagnosis than people diagnosed in the early 1970s. 77% of women diagnosed with breast cancer are likely to live for at least another 10 years compared with less than 40% in the 1970s; for bowel cancer, the figure has gone from 23% to 50%, and for ovarian cancer it has risen from 18 to 35%. 51% diagnosed today with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma are likely to live at least another 10 years compared to 22% forty years ago; and the 10-year survival rate for Hodgkin’s lymphoma is predicted to go up from under 50% to 80%. Cancer Research UK