Good news, finally!⁠ ⁠ More people in the U.S. are surviving with cancer and living longer lives than ever before, even as nearly 2 million Americans are estimated to receive cancer diagnoses in 2022 alone, according to a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research. ⁠ ⁠ In 1971, 3 million Americans, or 1.4 percent of the U.S. population, were living with a cancer diagnosis; this year, that number is over 18 million, or 5.4 percent of the population. ⁠ ⁠ The increase may seem alarming at first, but it’s actually a good sign: Diagnostics have improved and are able to catch more cancer cases earlier these days. ⁠ ⁠ That millions more Americans are living with cancer today also signifies that patients are now living longer, in part due to treatments including immunotherapies, targeted therapies like antibody-drug conjugates, and existing cancer drugs being repurposed for forms of cancers they were not initially designed to treat.⁠ ⁠ Read the full story with the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ —⁠ ⁠ Photo: Getty⁠ #cancer #cancersurvivor #cancerresearch #news #healthnews