NEW YORK (CBS NEWS) - The number of cancer survivors living in the U.S. is expected to surge by one-third come 2022, with about 18 million people expected to survive the disease. The ?Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Facts and Figures? report finds that even though cancer incidence rates are decreasing, the number of survivors is growing due to the aging and growth of the population, as well as improved rates in cancer survival.
Currently, there are an estimated 13.7 million people living in the United States who have survived cancer.
The report showed that, in 2012, the three most common cancers among men with a history of the disease were prostate cancer (43 percent of male survivors), colorectal cancer (9 percent) and melanoma (7 percent). As for women, 41 percent of them had breast cancer at some point, 8 percent had uterine cancer, followed by 8 percent reporting that they had colon cancer.
Those proportions are expected to be largely unchanged by 2022, the researchers said.
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