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Five-year survival from pediatric cancer rises to nearly 90% overall, but disparities by race and cancer type remain

Nearly nine in 10 young people with cancer were alive five years after diagnosis by 2017—up from six in 10 in 1975, according to the first comprehensive update of U.S. childhood cancer survival statistics in over a decade published in the…

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Nearly nine in 10 young people with cancer were alive five years after diagnosis by 2017—up from six in 10 in 1975, according to the first comprehensive update of U.S. childhood cancer survival statistics in over a decade published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute . But this immense progress did not reach everyone equally.

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