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Fifty years of real progress against cancer
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Fifty years of real progress against cancer

I was reading this fascinating report from the American Association for Cancer Research, and the long-term numbers are truly inspiring. Overall five-year cancer survival in the United States has jumped from 49% in the late 1970s to 71% today. Now, look at childhood lymphoid leukaemia, where survival rates climbed from 57% all the way to 90% simply by fine-tuning existing treatments. Even notoriously tough battles like lung cancer and liver cancer have seen their survival rates more than double thanks to better surgeries and smart immunotherapies. And here's the thing - this quiet, persistent scientific work is steadily turning once-deadly diagnoses into manageable conditions across the globe.
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