Adults in the UK and Ireland continue to have shorter survival than the European average for many common cancers, particularly colon, (52 per cent vs 57 per cent) ovary (31 per cent vs 38 per cent) and kidney, (48 per cent vs 61 per cent) but have about average survival rates for rectum, breast, prostate, melanoma of the skin, and lymphomas.
This is the conclusion of the latest EUROCARE-5 reports for 1999-2007, covering more than 50 per cent of the adult and 77 per cent of the childhood population of Europe. It says cancer survival still varies widely between European countries, despite major improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment during the first decade of the 21st Century.
The findings, published in The Lancet Oncology,(click to view article) analysed data from cancer registries covering all or part of 29 countries to compare five-year survival from diagnosis for more than nine million adults diagnosed between 2000 and 2007. The 29 countries were grouped into five regions, with England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales forming one region, titled ‘the UK and Ireland’.
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