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Survival rates for complex cancers ‘trail other wealthy states’

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Ireland ranks last for five-year survival from ovarian cancer at 36%, reveals Lancet study

Survival rates for many hard-to-treat cancers across the State still lag other affluent countries despite big improvements over the past 20 years, a new study shows.

The five-year survival rates for oesophageal and stomach cancers in Ireland are rising faster than in any of the seven high-income countries in the study of almost four million patients, published in the Lancet.

 

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