PHE 30 October 2020
- Cancer survival statistics for adults and children by stage at diagnosis and by different geographical variations.
- Main points
- Melanoma of the skin had the highest age-standardised net survival for 1-year in both males (97.6%) and females (98.8%) and for 5-year in males (90.1%) and females (94.5%) for diagnoses between 2014 and 2018.
- Pancreatic cancer had the lowest age-standardised net survival for 1-year in males (25.3%) and females (26.6%), and for 5-year in females (8.2%) for diagnoses between 2014 and 2018. For males, the lowest 5-year survival is in mesothelioma cancer (6.7%).
- We provide survival by stage estimates for 23 cancer sites. Stage data is complete for 86.8% of diagnoses in 2014 to 2018.
- Childhood cancer survival has continued to improve for 1-, 5- and 10-years, with the 5-year survival seeing the greatest improvement over time; an increase of 7.4 percentage points, from 77.2% in 2001 to 84.6% predicted for children diagnosed in 2019.
- For Cancer Alliances (CAs), the difference between the minimum and maximum 1-year survival estimates varies from 1.5 percentage points for breast cancer (females only) to 13.1 percentage points for brain cancer (all persons).
- All graphs can be found on the interactive R Shiny App.
