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Tuesday, October 23, 2001, updated at 16:13(GMT+8)
Life  

Chinese Doctors Lengthen Cancer Patients' Life Expectancy

Chinese experts said Chinese cancer patients live twice as long after treatment now than those in the 1970s.

At a recent conference on new technologies in cancer treatment held in central China's Hunan Province, experts said some 30 to 35 percent of people with liver cancer can live for three years or more after medical treatment, 20 percentage points more than the figure in the 1970s.

This life expectancy increase also applies to patients with other types of cancer, such as carcinoma of the stomach and breast cancer.

Experts said these figures show the great improvement in China' s cancer treatment capability. Some technologies have reached a world standard.

Besides conventional treatment, such as operations and chemotherapy, Chinese doctors have invented many new forms of treatment. For instance, the Hunan Cancer Hospital has been using a new technology based on transplantation of autohematopoietic cells to treat lymph cancer.







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Chinese experts said Chinese cancer patients live twice as long after treatment now than those in the 1970s.

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