More than 1.5 million Canadians have been diagnosed with cancer in the last 25 years and were still alive in January 2018, according to a new report on cancer prevalence published by the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS).
Among the Canadians with cancer, there were almost 1.7 million cancer cases, as one person can receive more than one cancer diagnosis. Almost half of all cancer cases involved breast, prostate, or colorectal cancers. Other common diagnoses included skin cancer, thyroid cancer, bladder cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, uterine cancer, and lung cancer.
