"Almost 7, 000 women a year are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the five year survival rate is very low at 30%", said Frances Reid, the charity's director of public affairs.
In stark contrast, the five year survival rate for lung cancer is 8.8% for women and 7.4% for men.
The survival rate for pancreatic cancer in Britain is among the worst in Europe, according to Pancreatic Cancer Action, and it has not improved for 40 years.
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Women diagnosed at the earliest stage of ovarian cancer have a five-year survival rate of 92%, but the five-year survival rate in the UK is just 36%, amongst the worst in Europe.
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However, the statistics do offer a broad comparison between the number of cases and deaths reported in a given year, which can help in illustrating the usual severity and survival rate of the cancer in question.
Along similar lines, the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 91.9 percent in the U.S. vs. 51.1 percent in UK, 66 percent in Sweden, 63 percent in Norway, 38.4 percent in Denmark, and 85.1 percent in Canada.
And today, because of that work, the number of women getting regular mammograms has dramatically increased, and the five-year survival rate when breast cancer is diagnosed in time is 98 percent -- and that's compared to 74 percent in the early 80s.
For breast cancer, U.S. women have a 14% higher survival rate, and a 5% higher rate for uterine cancer.
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The national poll also found that 37% named cancer as their most feared disease, despite the fact that the survival rate for heart failure is worse than that of breast and prostate cancer.
Annwen Jones, of Target Ovarian Cancer, said despite improvements, the UK still lagged behind other European countries in terms of cancer survival and that the remaining high death rate among older women with the disease was of particular concern.
Lung cancer, however, has a much lower survival rate, so remains the biggest killer, even though falls in smoking rates have reduced its incidence.
The survival rate for one type of cancer afflicting young patients chronic myelocytic leukemia has increased from 0% in the early 1980s to 75%.
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DCIS, as the cancer is commonly called, has a 95 percent survival rate, Navratilova said.
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a five-year survival rate of 5.5%.
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The five-year survival rate is 98% for women whose breast cancer tumors are discovered at their earliest stage.
Cancer drug Gleevec gives chronic myelogenous leukemia patients a 24-month survival rate of 92%.
Of course those who have an operation, the range is somewhere between 10 or 15 percent to 30 percent survival rate after five years, depending on what stage the cancer is, whether the surgeons could get what are called clean margins, and whether it's metastasized.
However, the survival rate did not seem to be due to the delivery of cancer care or surgical complications related to excess weight, says Fleming.
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