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UK data from 2010-2011: "Half (50%) of people diagnosed with cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for ten years or more" [0] Since lots of cancer
by robotresearcher 5y ago
UK data from 2010-2011:
"Half (50%) of people diagnosed with cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for ten years or more" [0]
Since lots of cancers and lots of deaths are in old people, 10 year survival is quite a high bar.
[0] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/survival#heading-Zero https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
- chimeracoder 5y ago> "Half (50%) of people diagnosed with cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for ten years or more" [0] Lumping all forms of cancer together is misleading, because cancers have dramatically different mortality rates. You need to separate by type of cancer, or else you're really just measuring the relative prevalence of different cancers. As it turns out, the UK has a relatively low survival rate of cancers compared to other developed countries, including the US. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)33326-3/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...