Number of US cancer survivors to surge: study

<p>The series of people in a United States who have survived <span>cancer</span> is set to strech scarcely 18 million in a subsequent decade, adult from 13.7 million currently, pronounced a US investigate out Thursday.</p>
<p>The series of survivors is flourishing since of improved treatments and an aging and expanding population, even as a altogether rate of cancer is falling, it said.</p>
<p>The investigate appears in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and was gathered by a <span>American Cancer Society</span> and a <span>National Cancer Institute</span>.</p>
<p>Nearly half of US <span>cancer survivors</span> are 70 or older, and 64 percent were diagnosed 5 or some-more years ago, pronounced a report.</p>
<p>The median, or median age for patients during a time of diagnosis was 66.</p>
<p>Young cancer survivors were some-more singular — usually 5 percent of a US race tha...