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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People whose oral cancer is detected early have an 80% chance of surviving for five years, compared to an average five year survival of 50%.
It's also one of the most deadly, with a five-year survival rate of just 17%.
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a five-year survival rate of 5.5%.
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Insulinomas have a five-year survival rate of 80%, and gastrinomas have 65%.
The UK had the worst bowel, lung and breast cancer five-year survival rates of any of the six countries with some stark variations.
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Freeman then was a breast cancer surgeon in Harlem, New York, trying to figure out why patients in his hospital had a five-year survival rate of 39% when it should have been closer to 85%.
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Women in deprived areas were less likely to be given radiotherapy and, on average, had a lower rate of five-year survival.
In the UK, although the number of new diagnoses is increasing year by year, survival rates have more than matched the increase, because of improved drugs and earlier detection of certain types of cancer.
Unfortunately, five-year survival rates for some cancers of the pancreas, brain, and lungs, remain in the single or low double digits.
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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.
For example: Page 16 shows a 70% five-year survival rate for stage IV carcinoma of the tongue.
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The surgery is considered fairly routine -- more than 300, 000 such procedures are conducted each year -- and has a survival rate of 99 percent, Gupta said.
And a man diagnosed with testicular cancer that has not spread beyond nearby lymph nodes has at least a 95% chance of reaching the important five-year survival point.
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The 'modest improvements' to estuary habitat, noted in the report, would actually require an improvement of over 600 percent in first-year survival.
With little prospect of fresh loans in the coming year for most firms, very tight cash management will be the key to survival, says Alejandro Preusche of the Buenos Aires office of McKinsey, a consultancy.
According to Bosse, there is scant proof that egg-to-smolt survival, which occurs during the first year of life, has decreased since the four lower Snake River dams were constructed.
The five-year survival rate for those diagnosed at a local stage of disease is 91 percent.
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Two-thirds of cases are diagnosed at the local stage, when five-year survival is more than 90 percent.
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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.
Past work by some of the same team suggested around 500 ovarian cancer deaths a year could be avoided in Britain if the country had a survival record that matched the rest of Europe.
Women who suffered delays of more than three months but less than six had a 5% lower five-year survival rate.
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"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.
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