A new report, entitled Canadian Cancer Statistics 2017, was released today by the Canadian Cancer Society in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada. Latest figures indicate that "for males, the lifetime risk (of a cancer diagnosis) is 49% and for females it is 45%." However, the overall cancer survival rate has increased from 25% in the 1940s to approximately 60% today.
To read more about this report, click here.
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