The number of U.S. cancer survivors increased to 11.7 million in 2007, a 19 percent rise from 2001.
About 4.7 million Americans received their cancer diagnosis at least 10 years earlier, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People living with breast cancer are the largest group and comprised 22 percent of the patients, followed by those with prostate cancer, representing 19 percent of the survivors.
Advances in early detection and treatment have enabled patients to live longer with the disease and, in some cases, made it curable, the authors of the report wrote. The aging population contributed to the increase in people living with the condition. Forty years ago, the number of cancer survivors was 3 million, according to the CDC report.
“It’s good news that so many are surviving cancer and leading long, productive, and healthy lives,” said Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, in a statement yesterday. “Preventing cancer and detecting it early remain critically important as some cancers can be prevented or detected early enough to be effectively treated.
A cancer survivor is anyone who has been diagnosed with the condition, from the time of diagnosis until death, according to the report.
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