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Survivorship: UK statistics 2005-2012

• At the end of 2005, it was estimated that around 26,000 people in Great Britain were long-term childhood cancer survivors, who had survived five years or longer after diagnosis with childhood cancer. • It is estimated that by the end of 2012 there will be at least 33,000 people in the UK who are alive having previously been diagnosed with a childhood cancer and who survived their cancer for at least five years.