Congress finds about 1 in 5 patients survive 5 years
What the document says“esophageal cancer is among the deadliest of cancers, with only about 1 in 5 patients surviving 5 years”
The fourth of the section's eleven findings. It states a five year survival figure of about one in five, and calls the disease among the deadliest of cancers. The tenth finding gives a higher figure, as high as 49 percent, for patients diagnosed at an early stage.
What the document actually says“esophageal cancer is among the deadliest of cancers, with only about 1 in 5 patients surviving 5 years”
Congress says this is one of the deadliest cancers. Only about one in five people live five more years.
Doctors track how many people live five years after they learn they are sick. That number is low here.
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