With continued advances in strategies to detect cancer early and treat it effectively, along with the aging of the population, the number of individuals living years beyond a cancer diagnosis can be expected to continue to increase. Statistical trends show that, in the absence of other competing causes of death, 64% of adults diagnosed with cancer today can expect to be alive in 5 years. Relative 5-year survival rates for those diagnosed as children (age less than 19 years) are even higher, with almost 79% of childhood cancer survivors estimated to be alive at 5 years and 75% at 10 years. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
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Aziz, N. M. (2006). Late effects of cancer treatments. In Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach (pp. 1778–1800). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31056-8_101
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