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Cancer Survival Rate Showing Mixed Results
While general survival rates are rising significantly from approximately 1 year in 1970, to closer to 6 years in 2007, for certain types of cancer, figures for survival rate have stagnated. The data, collected by Macmillan Cancer support in the UK, shows that oesophagus, stomach, brain, lung and pancreatic cancer still have median survival times of less than a year, as they did over thirty years ago. Colon cancer, however, has shown a 17-fold improvement. Others, such as breast, bladder and lymphoma have also shown a tremendous increase in median survival times over the four decades of the study.
Charities are now in talks with governments to help promote and direct funding towards those cancers showing little or no signs of improvement. These actions have been made possible by a slight change in the measurement of survival rates. Rather than calculating the number of survivors to reach 1, 5 and 10 year milestones, the study has instead worked with median survival times - a far more accurate figure.





