The annual update to the U.S. government's cancer survival data has taken place. It's very good news for the multiple myeloma community. The new data from "SEER" adds an estimate of survival for 2008 to the previous 5-year survival estimates for myeloma patients. The 2008 estimate shows a big jump from 2007 -- see the graph below.
Note: The estimates in the graph are 5-year RELATIVE survival. That is survival compared to what others of a similar age, but without myeloma, experienced.
For those who are particularly interested in this issue, you may want to see this posting from 2014, which displays a graph by myeloma specialist Dr. Leif Bergsagel, where he wondered if we might be seeing increasing multiple myeloma survival along the lines of what we see in today's updated results.
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