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Cancer
fromwww.npr.org
2 days ago

She's trying to outrun pancreatic cancer. Breakthrough treatments give her hope

Pancreatic cancer is often detected late, but targeted drugs, vaccines, and electrical-field therapies are improving outcomes for some patients.
fromHarvard Gazette
3 months ago

Americans living longer after cancer diagnosis - Harvard Gazette

New findings on cancer survival rates offer hope for the more than 2 million Americans diagnosed each year. Seven out of 10 Americans diagnosed with cancer now survive five years or more, according to the American Cancer Society, a 7 percent increase since the mid-1990s, when the rate stood at 63 percent. The survival rate data - from patients diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2021 - showed, significantly, that those with high-mortality cancers and advanced diagnoses had the largest gains.
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