Key Takeaways from the Recent Cancer Breakthroughs

• Cancer survival rates are improving thanks to faster, more effective treatments.
• Several major breakthroughs could transform cancer care, including mRNA cancer vaccines, immunotherapy, and gene testing.
• Improvements in testing, for example, through blood tests could help detect cancer earlier and save more lives.

In the mid 1970s, only around half of those diagnosed with cancer lived for another five years. Today, 70 percent of cancer patients can expect to be alive five years later, and many live much longer than that.