More Teenagers With Cancer Survive In UK than USA, Madonna Rejoices, Bruce Willis Seeks Vengance
Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog
(Editor: WTF?)
The first national report into survival rates by Manchester University looked at over 30,000 young people aged 13 to 24 diagnosed between 1979 and 2001.Five-year survival rates for all cancer types improved from 63% between 1979 and 1984 to 74% between 1996 and 2001, the British Journal of Cancer reports.Experts said more needed to be done to drive this figure even higher.The greatest increase in survival rates over the 23-year period was seen for leukaemia.But rates for brain tumours, bone cancers and soft tissue cancers have not changed much since the 1980s, the report said.
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