Cancer ‘no longer the death sentence’ it was in the 1970s, new report from Macmillan says

More than 170,000 people are alive despite being diagnosed with cancer more than 25 years ago, a new report by Macmillan Cancer Support has found. Macmillan’s report, ‘Cancer: Then and Now’, reveals for the first time the number of cancer survivors from the 1970s and 1980s in the UK. People are now on average twice as likely to survive at least 10 years after being diagnosed with cancer as they were at the start of the 1970s. These improvements in survival are partly due to earlier diagnosis – by way of screening programmes and advances in diagnostic tools, as well