Report: Number Of Cancer Survivors In US Expected To Climb To Nearly 19 Million By 2024. The Los Angeles Times Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (6/2, Kaplan) “Science Now” blog reports that a newly released report “identifies a group of Americans that is expected to grow by 30% over the next decade: cancer survivors.” At the beginning of this year, “there were nearly 14.5 million people alive in the United States who had been diagnosed with some type of cancer.” Ten years from now, “2024, that figure is projected to reach 18.9 million, according to” the “report released...by the American Cancer Society.” According to the blog, “the authors of the report – from the ACS and the National Cancer Institute – define a cancer “survivor” as anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer and is still alive.” According to the AP Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (6/2, Marchione), the new “report was released Sunday during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.” HealthDay Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (6/2) reports that although “cancer rates have been falling for 10 years...the number of cancer survivors is rising due to factors such as earlier detection and better treatments, the American Cancer Society said.” The new “findings were published online...in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.”
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