STAT January 13, 2026
The five-year survival rate for all cancers has increased from 50% to 70%
More people are surviving cancer than ever before, as the five-year survival rate across cancer has reached 70%, according to the American Cancer Society’s new cancer statistics report. To experts, the figure is a marker of the progress in oncology since the passage of the National Cancer Act in 1971, when only 50% of cancer patients lived past five years.
“That is spectacular. For someone like me, with decades in this field, that is so gratifying to see. There’s real progress when you think about therapies for cancer,” said Marcel Van Den...
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