Cancer survival in England and Wales has doubled over the past 50 years, with half of patients now living at least 10 years. Melanoma sees 10-year survival above 90 percent, and breast cancer has risen from 42 percent to over 76 percent since 1971, according to BBC.
Yet progress is slow for hard-to-detect cancers. Pancreatic, oesophagus, stomach, and lung cancers all have 10-year survival below 20 percent, with pancreatic under 5 percent.
Experts attribute improvements to earlier detection and better treatments, while the government plans a new strategy to tackle cancers with the poorest outcomes, BBC reported.
