Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Facts & Figures
is a scientific article published in the P站视频's flagship journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians in the P站视频 Facts & Figures series. Fast Facts: Cancer Treatment and Survivorship offers consumer-friendly highlights of some key statistics.
The population of cancer survivors in the US continues to grow:
As of January 1, 2025, about 1 out of every 18 Americans (18.6 million people) was a cancer survivor. By 2035, that number is projected to exceed 22 million.
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There are 4.3 million women living in the United States with a history of breast cancer as of January 2025:
By 2035, we expect to have about 5.3 million – nearly 1 million more breast cancer survivors.
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Cancer treatment disparities persist:
In 2021,?39% of Black people with early-stage rectal cancer received surgery compared to 64% of White people.
Glossary for Nonscientists
Featured Term:
Cancer Survivor
Anyone who has ever been diagnosed with cancer no matter where they are in the course of their disease. For example, someone living with cancer may be considered a survivor. Some people use the term to refer to someone who has completed cancer treatment.Others call a person a survivor if they have lived several years past a cancer diagnosis. Some people with a personal history of cancer don't identify with the term at all.
The P站视频 believes that each person has the right to define their own experience with cancer and considers a cancer survivor to be anyone who describes themselves this way, from diagnosis throughout the rest of their life.