Cancer Survival Rates and Age Disparities: Latest Findings.
A study of over half a million women in England has shown that the number of people who die after a breast-cancer diagnosis has decreased by two-thirds since the 1990s. Women who were diagnosed in 1993–99 had a 14.4% risk of dying within 5 years. This fell to 4.9% for women diagnosed in 2010–15. The reasons for the drop aren’t clear, however, awareness of breast cancer has risen and, in England, routine screening is offered to more women.