Number Of Cancer Survivors To Increase Exponentially
The Connecticut Mirror: Taking Care Of Cancer Patients Once The Disease Is GoneThe field of survivorship is relatively new, in part because the idea that cancer is survivable is too. In 1971, the year Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, there were 3 million survivors in the United States. ... By 2007, there were 11.7 million cancer survivors, including more than a million who had been alive 25 or more years after diagnosis. Because cancer occurs most often in people over 65, the number of cancer survivors is likely to grow exponentially as the population ages (Levin Becker, 8/5). This is part of the Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.