A leading UK cancer charity released new figures today that show that people diagnosed with breast, bowel and ovarian cancers, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, are today twice as likely to survive at least 10 years after diagnosis than people diagnosed in the early 1970s.
Cancer Research UK analyzed survival trends for common cancers in England and Wales covering the last 40 years.
The head of their cancer survival group, Dr. Michel Coleman, who is Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the press that:
"These big increases in long-term survival since the 1970s reflect real progress in cancer diagnosis and treatment, and they confirm the immense value of having a National Cancer Registry that holds simple information about all cancer patients diagnosed during the last 30 to 40 years."
