Cancer patients twice as likely to live an extra decade

People are twice as likely to live at least 10 years after being diagnosed with cancer than they were at the start of the 1970s, research shows.

More than 170,000 people in the UK who were diagnosed in the 1970s and 1980s are still alive — an “extraordinary” number, Macmillan Cancer Support said in its report Cancer: Then And Now.

Here in Ireland, Irish Cancer Society (ICS) head of research Dr Robert O’Connor said survival rates were also constantly improving.