RISE IN SURVIVAL
Partly thanks to our lovely NHS (see right), women diagnosed with breast cancer are now two thirds more likely to survive than those diagnosed 20 years ago. Basically, survival rates have soared by 66% over 20 years.
The stats come from a landmark study by the University of Oxford, and as breast cancer is the most common type of the disease in the UK, it’s such an optimistic message for the 56,800 new cases each year.
Breast cancer is no longer a death sentence, and the risk of dying in the first five years is now just 5%. But the message
