Cancer survival rates for teenagers and young adults in the UK have risen by a sixth over two decades, figures show. The first national report into survival rates by Manchester University looked at over 30,000 young people aged 13 to 24 diagnosed between 1979 and 2001. Five-year survival rates for all cancer types improved from 63% between 1979 and 1984 to 74% between 1996 and 2001, the British Journal of Cancer reports.

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