“The five-year relative survival rate for US cancer patients rose from 49 percent for patients diagnosed in 1975–1979 to 71 percent for those diagnosed in 2016–2022, according to a recent report from the American Association for Cancer Research. Relative survival adjusts for deaths from causes other than cancer by comparing patients with the general population,” notes Human Progress.
The AACR notes that “The steady decline in overall US cancer mortality is largely driven by…declines in lung cancer deaths….Declines in death rates for colorectal cancer (CRC) and female breast cancer over the past three decades have also played a key role in reducing the overall US cancer mortality rate.”
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