Chemotherapy drugs are administered to a patient at a hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C., in this file photo. Gerry Broome/AP Photo, File
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The five-year survival rate for people diagnosed with lung cancer has doubled over the past three decades, but the disease remains one of the most common causes of death among Canadians, new statistics indicate.
The number of people living five years after they were diagnosed with lung cancer rose from 13 percent to 27 percent between 1992 and 2021, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
Jennifer Cowan is a writer and editor with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.
