It seems like everywhere you look there's bad things happening, new threats to worry about and things which are worse than they used to be.
But many things are coming on leaps and bounds, people are doing incredible things and for many people life today is more sheltered and peaceful than at any time in human history. This blog seeks to redress the balance in the media on whether the world is a better place or a worse place than once it was.
Friday 21 November 2014
Cancer Survival Figures 'Double' Since 1970s
Cancer Research UK announced in 2010 that Survival rates for some cancers have doubled over the past four decades. People with breast, bowel and ovarian cancers, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, are now twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years than in the 1970s. Cancer Research UK's figures show leukaemia survival is now four times as high, although the charity warned there was still much work to do.
And that improvement trend is continuing. As of October 2014, the Office For National Statistics (ONS) reported that most people diagnosed with cancer in England in recent years are surviving for longer, according to the latest statistics. Eighty per cent of those with breast, prostate and skin cancer are living for five years after diagnosis. The figure is 90% for testicular cancer.
Meanwhile, Cancer Research UK's current projections for the mortality rates from all cancers also shows a promising trend, namely that whilst mortality rates were relatively stable between the early 1970's and the early 1990's, they started to decline in the early 1990's and the current projections suggest that this decline in mortality rates will continue:
It's by no means party time yet, of course. That's why we should all be ploughing everything we can into charities like Cancer Research UK and individual causes that are rasing money on behalf of them, such as the wonderful Tash's Bashes from personal experience.
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