As with most cancers, survival for female breast cancer is improving. One-year
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
About this data
Data is for: England and Wales, 1971-2011, ICD-10 C50