There’s good news regarding survival when cancer if found, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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American Cancer Society data find that the majority of people who are diagnosed with cancers of all types will still be alive five years later. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson says this is good news indeed.

Nelson: The American Cancer Society each year produces a piece on the cancer statistics and basically they use all the data that they can find to model what's going to happen in the coming year. It's pretty much the best of the overall scorecards for how we're doing with cancer, how many people get it, how many people die from it, are doing any better or any worse. It's overall impressive. Big news that's exciting is the five year survival rate for all cancers it's now 70%, that's double of what it was in the 1970s. It's had incredible gains.  :32

Nelson notes there are a few cancers that are increasing in incidence and are being scrutinized closely to find out why, including colorectal cancer and pancreas cancer. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.