Stat bit: Cancer Survival in Children

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Survival rates for U.S. children with cancer have increased dramatically since the 1960s, largely as a result of advances in treatment. For all cancer sites cpmbined, the 5-year relative survival rate (adjusting for non-cancer deaths) for children under age 15 has increased from less than 30% to more than 70%. Today, almost one of very 1,000 people who reach adulthood are vured survivors of childhoos cancer. The table below shows trends in cancer survival for selected sites dating from the inception of NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program in the 1970s.