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Cancer survival rate
It remains the most frightening, most paralyzing diagnosis: cancer. Decades and decades of research has taught us that cancer is not one disease, it is hundreds of diseases, all different, all having different prognoses, and all requiring their own treatments.
According to statistics compiled by the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER), an estimated 789,620 men and 739,940 women—totaling 1,529,560 people in all—will be diagnosed with some form of cancer each year.
And each year, approximately 570,000 people will die from cancer each year.
Incidence and Mortality
The median age at diagnosis for cancer is 66 years of age, and the median age at death from cancer is 73.
About two-thirds of all cancer diagnoses occur after age 55 and by age 84. A little more than one half of all cancer deaths occur between the ages of 65 and 84.
Cancer survival rates
Survival rates in cancer can be determined using various methods. One of them is known as the overall 5-year relative survival percentage—a figure that represents the number of people expected to be alive 5 years after receiving a diagnosis, compared to the same group among the general population. Stats are not provided by cancer stage in this instance; rather, there is just one stat: The overall 5-year relative survival percentage for all cancers is 65.3 percent.
Sources
National Cancer Institute SEER Stat Fact Sheets: All Cancer Sites
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