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Landmark cancer survival rate tops half of patients
Washington reports top health official Dr. Vincent DeVita cites a landmark shift as more than 50 percent of cancer patients survive at least five years. For those diagnosed 1960–63 the five year rate was 38 percent, rising to 42 percent for 1970–73 and now over 50 percent overall.
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