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Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis.
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Target: 70 percent.
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Baseline: 59 percent of persons with invasive cancer of any type were living 5 years or longer after diagnosis in 1989–95.
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Target setting method: 19 percent improvement.
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Data
source
: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, NIH, NCI.
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