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Number of cancer survivors is rising in the US

The number of cancer survivors in the US will rise from the current 14.5m to nearly 19m by 2024. [s]Medicinenet[/s] reports that a survey from the [b]American Cancer Society[/b] found cancer rates have been falling for 10 years, but the number of cancer survivors is rising due to factors such as earlier detection and better treatments.

[link url=http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=178791]Full Medicinenet report[/link]
[link url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21235/abstract]CA abstract[/link]

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