The 5-year relative survival rate for leukemia has more than doubled, from 34 percent for 1975 to 1977 to 69 percent for 2012 to 2018.An estimated 437,337 people are living with or in remission from leukemia in the US.In 2023, 59,610 people are expected to be diagnosed with leukemia.*Data specified for “blood cancer” include leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and do not include myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) or myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) due to lack of available data. These diseases are expected to account for 9.4 percent of the deaths from cancer in 2023, based on the estimated total of 609,820 cancer deaths.Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma are expected to cause the deaths of an estimated 57,380 people in the US in 2023.Approximately every 9 minutes, someone in the US dies from a blood cancer.* This statistic represents approximately 157 people each day or more than six people every hour.The Trish Greene Back to School Program.
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