Breast cancer survivors march to the stage before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in St. Louis in 2018. A study published Friday estimated 18.6 million cancer survivors live in the United States, up from 18 million in 2022. The number is expected to rise past 22 million by 2035. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 30 (UPI) -- The number of cancer survivors living in the United States is continuing its steady increase, rising to an estimated at 18.6 million as of Jan. 1, according to a study published Friday by the American Cancer Society.
That number is projected to exceed 22 million by 2035, and is up from 18 million survivors in 2022, the authors found.
Friday's peer-reviewed study, published in the cancer society's CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, also found that about half of those 18.6 million survivors were diagnosed within the past 10 years, and that nearly 4r out of 5 of them were 60 years old and older.
The latest figures continue a pattern in which the numbers of U.S. cancer survivors are increasing each year, partly as a result of the growth and aging of the population, but also due to improvements in early detection practices and breakthroughs in cancer treatments.
