Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system
- Written by Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Getty ImagesOne in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years.
This extraordinary shift over the past few decades introduces new challenges. A large and growing proportion of people diagnosed with cancer are living with it,...

















