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    Posted: 06/16/2008
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Slide 3 : Estimated Number of Cancer Survivors in the United States previous

Estimated Number of Cancer Survivors in the United States

There are an estimated 11,941,043 cancer survivors in the United States as of 2007.

A bar chart shows an increasingly rapid growth in this population, from a figure of about 3 million in 1971.

The data displayed in the bar chart:
1971: 2,995,741
1972: 3,134,865
1973: 3,299,981
1974: 3,447,010
1975: 3,630,812
1976: 3,805,837
1977: 3,993,109
1978: 4,192,377
1979: 4,391,529
1980: 4,576,763
1981: 4,745,108
1982: 4,943,233
1983: 5,127,487
1984: 5,320,663
1985: 5,536,992
1986: 5,731,770
1987: 5,944,365
1988: 6,168,724
1989: 6,386,491
1990: 6,598,821
1991: 6,873,628
1992: 7,193,377
1993: 7,527,947
1994: 7,849,228
1995: 8,182,427
1996: 8,412,650
1997: 8,659,323
1998: 8,946,912
1999: 9,235,540
2000: 9,555,312
2001: 9,809,040
2002: 10,146,324
2003: 10,495,985
2004: 10,762,214
2005: 11,183,404
2006: 11,560,322
2007: 11,941,043

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