Survival rates for some cancers have doubled over the past four decades, a charity has said.
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.
The Department of Health said it was “delighted” by the findings.
Launching a television campaign, the charity said investment in research was key to further boosting survival.
Read more at BBC Health.
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