X-Message-Number: 18806 From: "Daniel Crevier" <> Subject: cancer survival rates. Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:21:08 -0500 To follow up on my earlier posting, a little googling revealed that overall 5-year cancer survival rates went from slightly under 40% in the early 1960s, as quoted in a government report at site http://seer.cancer.gov/Publications/raterisk/rates29.html to 62% today, as per a newspaper article on the Life Extension Foundation site at http://www.lef.org/news/disease/2002/01/17/CGZT/0000-37358-KEYWORD.Missing.h tml The latter source even mentions that "The outlook probably is even rosier for people diagnosed today because the survival rates being reported now are based on treatments that took place eight years ago, and many advances have been made since then. " That's a 22% increase in 40 years, or about half a percent per year. At that rate it would take about 80 years for the survival rate to reach 100%. But we can surmise that as we finally start to understand the mechanisms of cancer, progress should accelerate. Daniel Crevier Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18806