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Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system

  • Written by: Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years.

This extraordinary shift over the past few decades introduces new challenges. A large and growing proportion of people diagnosed with cancer are living with it,...

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