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More than 170,000 people in the UK who were diagnosed with cancer up to 40 years ago are still alive, a report by Macmillan Cancer Support shows.
The charity says people are twice as likely to survive for at least a decade after being diagnosed than they were at the start of the 1970s.
It says better treatments and speedier diagnoses are among the reasons.
But it warns that for many survivors, cancer leaves a lifelong legacy of side-effects that cannot be ignored.
A report by the charity, called Cancer Then and Now, looks at diagnosis, care and survival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36925974
The charity says people are twice as likely to survive for at least a decade after being diagnosed than they were at the start of the 1970s.
It says better treatments and speedier diagnoses are among the reasons.
But it warns that for many survivors, cancer leaves a lifelong legacy of side-effects that cannot be ignored.
A report by the charity, called Cancer Then and Now, looks at diagnosis, care and survival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36925974