Good news on cancer survival! Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Seventy percent of people diagnosed with cancer in the United States will still be alive five years later, the American Cancer Society reports. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, says yes, and.

Nelson: There's still a lot of work to do. More than two million new cancer diagnosis projected for 2026. That's 5800 a day and more than 600,000 deaths, so we have work to do but we're getting better and better. We're avoiding cancer deaths, we're treating people more effectively.               :18

Nelson says specific cancers are impacted by different factors.

Nelson: There's sort of a different story or set of stories for each type of cancer in terms of why mortality may be improving. Some of them are related to better screening and early detection, some of them are related to better treatment, others are related to significant things like smoking cessation, HPV vaccination.   :17

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.