Health
Nearly two in three cancer patients alive after five years, figures show – The Irish Times
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Nearly two out of every three patients who get cancer are still alive five years later as survival rates continue to improve, new figures show.
The five-year survival rate for cancer patients was 63 per cent for men and 61 per cent for women in 2012-16, up from 39 per cent and 46 per cent in 1994-99, according to the annual report of the National Cancer RegistryIreland (NCRI).
While survival rates vary hugely across different types of cancer, improvements have occurred for most forms of the disease.
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