How many progress to Stage IV?

['lizbeth]

I looked again at the statistics and realized that the last years for collection of information was about 2007 or 2008. The most recent years information is an estimate. So diagnosed cases are not an actual number since 2009.

Look at the graphs for breast cancer, the 5 years is from 2001 to 2007. For any cancer too, not just breast.

No one seems to be tracking anything. All this money going for cancer research and we don't even know for sure how many people have been diagnosed.

And so I see an even larger challenge to get tracking for recurrence, which would help to identify where progress is being made, or not made in the "War on Cancer."

How are we going to get busy doctor's to report recurrences?

Maybe by setting up a program through ACS, like when a patient is first diagnosed. And the patient can self report? Both initial diagnosis and recurrence?