Douglas Flora, Executive Medical Director of Yung Family Cancer Center at St. Elizabeth Healthcare, President-Elect of the Association of Cancer Care Centers, and Editor in Chief of AI in Precision Oncology, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“70%
For the first time, seven in ten people diagnosed with cancer will be alive five years later.
In 1975, it was five in ten.
The American Cancer Society released these numbers today.
Myeloma survival doubled. Liver cancer tripled. Distant-stage lung cancer – once 2% – now 10%.
These aren’t abstractions. These are your patients. Your colleagues. You.
We’re living through the rebooting of cancer care. Together.
The numbers will improve at log scales in the coming years. Multi-cancer early detection arriving at population scale. Digital twins model treatment response before the first dose. Trial designs that learn as they enroll. Prevention algorithms that actually prevent.
The infrastructure is being built right now. In your cancer center. In ours.
The 1975 patient had surgery, radiation, and a handful of chemotherapies. The 2025 patient has 300+ FDA-approved treatments, liquid biopsies, and molecular tumor boards.
The 2035 patient will look back at 2025 the way we look back at 1975.
The work ahead:
Better days, not just more days. Survivorship that doesn’t bankrupt families or abandon patients after treatment ends. Disparities that narrow instead of widen. Research funding that accelerates instead of stalls.
But today – January 13, 2026 – we crossed 70%.
Forward.”
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