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  2. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    Small cell lung cancer has a five-year survival rate of 4% according to Cancer Centers of America's Website. [5] The American Cancer Society reports 5-year relative survival rates of over 70% for women with stage 0-III breast cancer with a 5-year relative survival rate close to 100% for women with stage 0 or stage I breast cancer.

  3. Geriatric oncology - Wikipedia

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    Geriatric oncology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the elderly, usually defined as aged 65 and older.This fairly young but increasingly important subspecialty incorporates the special needs of the elderly into the treatment of cancer.

  4. List of cancer mortality rates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States during 2013–2017, the age-adjusted mortality rate for all types of cancer was 189.5/100,000 for males, and 135.7/100,000 for females. [1] Below is an incomplete list of age-adjusted mortality rates for different types of cancer in the United States from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program.

  5. Limited-stage small cell lung carcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Small cell lung cancer is often treated as a systematic disease due to its tendency for early dissemination, [4] thus, instead of the traditional TNM staging system, the Veterans' Administration Lung Study Group (VALSG) introduced a simplified 2-stage system in the 1950s to divide small cell lung cancer into limited stage and extensive stage. [7]

  6. List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    This is especially true for Healthy life expectancy, the definition of which criteria may change over time, even within a country. For example, Canada is a country with a fairly high overall life expectancy at 81.63 years; however, this number decreases to 75.5 years for Indigenous people in the country. [4]

  7. Column: A cancer survivor's advice: research, persistence and ...

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    The cancer was gone. Two months later, she had another test. No cancer. “Her cancer is, at this moment, undetectable and in remission. For anaplastic cancer that’s very unusual,” Dr. Mita ...

  8. Life table - Wikipedia

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    2003 US mortality table, Table 1, Page 1. In actuarial science and demography, a life table (also called a mortality table or actuarial table) is a table which shows, for each age, the probability that a person of that age will die before their next birthday ("probability of death").

  9. ‘The Crossing’ by Huffington Post

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    Watch firsthand, in 360 video, as Susan Sarandon listens and learns about refugees' hopes, dreams and journeys