Number of cancer survivors to increase exponentially

The Connecticut Mirror: Taking Care Of Cancer Patients Once The Disease Is Gone
The field of survivorship is relatively new, in part because the idea that cancer is survivable is too. In 1971, the year Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, there were 3 million survivors in the United States. ... By 2007, there were 11.7 million cancer survivors, including more than a million who had been alive 25 or more years after diagnosis. Because cancer occurs most often in people over 65, the number of cancer survivors is likely to grow exponentially as the population ages (Levin Becker, 8/5).

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