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"Knowing that his disease had a high cure rate, Ben Dacus felt a sense of security at a time of great uncertainty. In 1988 he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.
Strangely enough, Ben's reaction to his diagnosis was one of relief. 'I was relieved to know my illness had a name, and because of the high cure rate, I never really feared that I was going to die. Hodgkin's had a long history of research, and doctors had been treating it succesfully for many year.'
When radiation treatments didn't work, Ben was devastated. But to his relief chemotherapy afforded him a rapid recovery.
Looking back on his illness, Ben says he is thankful for medical research. 'It didn't occur to me at the time I was going through treatment to consider how medical research had brought treatment methods to the point it had. But I was thankful to live in a day and age when cancer is treatable. If it had been the 1950s, I would have died four years later."
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Research!America. "Investment in Research Saves Lives and Money". 2005. [ Permalink ] |
Treating cancer patients with oral medicine versus intravenous chemotherapy results in a 2/3 reduction in hospital time and a greater than 50% reduction in costly medication side effects.
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Twelves, Chris. "Oral Chemotherapy Saves Resources and Time". Reuters Medical News. 12-Jun-2001. [ Permalink ] |
A 2002 study found that image-guided percutaneous needle biopsies are between 3 and 7 times more cost-effective than open surgical biopsies, require a shorter procedure time, result in fewer infections, and allow earlier treatment if cancer is found.
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Jelinek, James S., Mark D. Murphey, James A. Welker, Robert M. Henshaw, Mark J. Kransdorf, Barry M. Shmookler, and Martin M. Malawer. "Diagnosis of Primary Bone Tumors with Image-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy: Experience with 110 tumors". Radiology. Vol. 223, pp. 731-7. [ Permalink ] |
The 5-year survival rate for all cancers diagnosed between 1995 and 2001 is up from 50% in 1974-1976 to 65%.
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American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. 2006. [ Permalink ] |
Death rates from breast cancer declined by an average of 2.3% per year between 1990 and 2002 because of earlier detection through screening, better awareness, and improved treatments.
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American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. 2006. [ Permalink ] |
The 5-year survival rate for localized breast cancer, is 98%--an 18% increase since the 1950s.
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American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. 2006. [ Permalink ] |
Incidence rates for colorectal cancer have been decreasing since 1985, from 66 to 52 per 100,000 in 2002.
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American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. 2006. [ Permalink ] |
When detected early, the 5-year survival rate for colorectal cancer is 90%; however, only 39% of colorectal cancers are diagnosed early, mainly because of low rates of screening.
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American Cancer Society. Cancer Facts and Figures 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. 2006. [ Permalink ] |
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