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    Posted: 06/16/2008
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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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