Cancer survival rates

Brain and pancreatic cancers have much lower median survival rates which have not improved as dramatically over the last forty years.

[6] The highest cancer survival rates are in countries such as South Korea, Japan, Israel, Australia, and the United States.

[13] Researchers attribute the reduction in breast cancer mortality to improved treatment, including the increased use in adjuvant chemotherapy.

[14] The National Institute of Health (NIH) attributes the increase in the 5-year relative survival of prostate cancer (from 69% in the 1970s to 100% in 2006) to screening and diagnosis and due to the fact that men that participate in screening tend to be healthier and live longer than the average man and testing techniques that are able to detect slow growing cancer before they become life-threatening.

[18] The NCI lists over 100 targeted therapies that have been approved for the treatment of 26 different cancer types by the United States Food and Drug Administration.