A new report found that the number of people surviving cancer is at a historic high. The new findings published by the American Cancer Society found that the five-year-survival rate for all cancers has reached 70% for the first time. That's up from just half in the mid 1970s.

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A recent report by the American Cancer Society reveals that the five-year survival rate for all cancers in the United States has reached 70%, a significant increase from 50% in the mid-1970s. This improvement is credited to advances in early diagnosis, targeted therapies, and preventive strategies including screening and vaccination.

Despite these gains, the report notes that over two million new cancer cases and more than 600,000 cancer-related deaths are expected in the U.S. in 2024. Experts emphasize the continued importance of early screening, HPV vaccination, research funding, and lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation and weight management to further improve survivability.

Number of people surviving cancer is at historic high, report finds

A new report found the number of people surviving cancer is at a historic high. The new findings, published by the American Cancer Society, found that the five-year survival rate for all cancers has reached 70 percent for the first time. That's up from just half in the mid-1970s. CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. John LaPook joins us now. I mean, doctor, we have some good health news here. We love a little bright spot. What did the American Cancer Society cite as the biggest driving force behind this? Well, it's a number of things. I actually just got off the phone with Rebecca Siegel, who is one of the authors of the study, and she said it's a combination of, you know, early diagnosis, which we know things like colonoscopy and mammography and skin screening can help, but also much more targeted therapy. So you have this combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapy. What that means is going after very specific molecular defects or changes in mutations so that instead of doing like in the old days where somebody had chemo and it was sort of like hitting somebody over the head with a two-by-four, you hope that you hurt the cancer more than you hurt the person. But now we're just sort of honing in on the cancer. We've had some dramatic responses, multiple myeloma and certain types of cancer and colon cancer. And this year, the U.S. is expected to see upwards of two million new cancer cases, more than 600,000 deaths related to cancer. These numbers are from the American Cancer Society. How can patients be on the lookout for symptoms and can they get screened early? You know, they can get screened early. And Rebecca Siegel, again, who was a co-author, really wanted me to emphasize two things. One is, you know, there are screening lung CT scans. And if you have a 20-pack year history of smoking, and that means, you know, a pack year is you smoke one pack a day for a year that's a pack year. So if you do a pack a day for 20 years, you have 20-pack years, or two packs a day for 10 years, right? You should talk to your doctor or your healthcare provider about doing a screening CAT scan. But the uptake of that is less than 20%. So we have a lot of ways to go. The other thing is things like HPV vaccine. Now, human papillomavirus vaccine can help prevent not only infection with HPV, but it can prevent cancer. It can help prevent cervical cancer, and it can prevent cancer of the head and neck, you know, in men. So it's both for men and women, but the uptake of that is only about two-thirds. Is that a specific age range of when people should get the HPV vaccine? Well, you know, they say you can start it as early as nine, right? But why is it still nine? People aren't sexually active at nine, generally, right? But it's because the vaccine works better when given earlier, right? But you can do it for those years, for a few years after that. And the more you wait, then the more you risk the person becoming sexually active, you know. People do have sex at an earlier age, usually, than their parents want them to or want to believe that they are. But, you know, once you have HPV, you sort of can't get rid of it. 90% of people with HPV, it sort of comes in and remains dormant, but in 10%, it can come out again, and it can cause all sorts of mischief. What else needs to be done to drive the survivability rates up? I think people need to do more research, for sure. We're seeing cuts in research. This is not the time to cut research. It's the time to double down. And I think people really need to talk to their healthcare provider about what they can specifically do. I mean, we know obesity is linked to cancer, increased risk of cancer. So you want to try to take care of that. I know it's hard. We have these medications now that can help you lose the GLP-1 agonists. Never start smoking. So smoking was 42% in the 60s. It's now down to 11%. But smoking still causes 500 deaths a day in the United States. You want to do one thing? Don't start smoking. And if you have a loved one who's smoking, tell them, please, I love you. Stop smoking. News you can use.

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