47.1% of males survive oesophageal cancer for at least one year. This falls to 16.3% surviving for five years or more, as shown by age-standardised net survival for patients diagnosed with oesophageal cancer during 2013-2017 in England.[1] Survival for females at one year is 46.0% and falls to 18.7% surviving for at least five years. Survival for females is similar to than for males at one year, and higher than for at five years.
Oesophageal Cancer Age-Standardised One-, Five- and Ten-Year Net Survival, Adults (Aged 15-99), England, 2013-2017


About this data
Data is for England, 2013 - 2017, ICD-10 C15.
Survival statistics give an overall picture of survival and the survival time experienced by an individual patient may be much higher or lower, depending on specific patient and tumour characteristics.