Breast cancer survival statistics

Trend over time

Change in breast cancer 10-year survival between the 1970s and 2010s, UK

 

As with most cancers, survival for female breast cancer is improving. One-year age-standardised Open a glossary item net survival for breast cancer in women has increased from 82% during 1971-1972 to 96% during 2010-2011 in England and Wales – an absolute survival difference Open a glossary item of 14 percentage points.[1]

Breast Cancer (C50), Age-Standardised One-Year Net Survival, Women (Aged 15-99), England and Wales, 1971-2011

Five- and ten-year survival has increased by an even greater amount than one-year survival since the early 1970s. Five-year age-standardised net survival for breast cancer in women has increased from 53% during 1971-1972 to a predicted survival of 87% during 2010-2011 in England and Wales – an absolute survival difference of 34 percentage points.[1]

Breast Cancer (C50), Age-Standardised Five-Year Net Survival, Women (Aged 15-99), England and Wales 1971-2011

Five-year survival for 2010-2011 is predicted using an excess hazard statistical model

Ten-year age-standardised net survival for breast cancer in women has increased from 40% during 1971-1972 to a predicted survival of 78% during 2010-2011 in England and Wales – an absolute survival difference of 38 percentage points.[1] Overall, almost 8 in 10 women diagnosed with breast cancer today are predicted to survive their disease for at least ten years.

Breast Cancer (C50), Age-Standardised Ten-Year Net Survival, Women (Aged 15-99), England and Wales, 1971-2011

Ten-year survival for 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 is predicted using an excess hazard statistical model

See also

Breast cancer (invasive) incidence trends over time

In situ breast cancer incidence trends over time

Breast cancer mortality trends over time

Cancer mortality trends over time for all cancers

References

  1. Data were provided by London School of Hygiene and Tropical  Medicine on request, 2014.

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Data is for: England and Wales, 1971-2011, ICD-10 C50

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