Are We Beating Cancer?

 

Are We Beating Cancer? 

 

Over the past two decades cancer survival rates have gone up. From being around 34% to around 45%. Although more people are having cancer these days due to alcohol, smoking, and being over weight. People that have habits like this are more likely to have cancer rather than people who don't drink, smoke or are over weight.These cancers such as oesophageal and pancreatice have  very low survival rates. Over the past 20 years around 520,000 lives have been saved due to research.

I think it's amazing how we are being able to help solve cancer. It has taken many, many years of research and practice, but we are getting there. Some are still very hard to solve and are very hard to detect at the early stages. I'm sure it's very long and very hard work to do this kind of job. If only we could some how come up with something to detect all cancers. But only the future can tell what happens I guess.


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