These cancer survival estimates are an interactive presentation of the National Statistics publication "Cancer Survival in England: adult, stage at diagnosis, childhood and geographical patterns for patients diagnosed followed up to 2019".
The full release, with data tables and statistical commentary, is published here. National Statistics are a subset of official statistics, which have been certified by the UK Statistics Authority as compliant with its Code of Practice for Statistics.
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These pages provide 1-year age-standardised net survival estimates for 31 common cancers. The estimates are for adults (aged 15 to 99 years) diagnosed between 2014 and 2018 in England. Estimates are presented for men and females, and persons. Patients were followed up for at least one whole calendar year (up to 31 December 2019).
The 31 cancer sites represent 95% of new diagnoses (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) in England in 2018.
Cancer sites are included if 1-year age-standardised survival estimates are available for at least 75% of Cancer Alliances for either men or females; estimates for persons are presented if estimates are presented for both men and females.
Estimates are presented for England and for three subnational geographical levels of organisation of the NHS in England:
Hover over the points to see details on survival estimates.
All cancers are staged 1-4 except Myeloma which is 1-3. If a stage does not appear this means that age-standardised results could not be calculated.
The width of the bar represents the percent of stage at diagnoses.
Hover over points to see details on survival estimates and stage distribution.
Hover over the points to see details on survival estimates.
Hover over the points to see details on area name and survival estimates.
Hover over points to see details on area name and survival estimates. Select an area to highlight their survival estimates.
Click on the drop-down menus to select a sex, type of geography and tumour site. Then click "Load Map" to view the data. The map may take a few moments to load.
Hover over the map to see the survival for particular areas. To highlight an area of interest use the "Select an area" drop-down list.
The complete set of survival results that was used to produce the National Statistics release "Cancer Survival in England: adult, stage at diagnosis, childhood and geographical patterns" is available to download from the gov.uk website.
These reference tables are provided in OpenDocument Spreadsheet file format and are readable by standard business software, including free opensource packages.
These subnational cancer survival estimates are based on net survival, which is calculated by comparing the survival of cancer patients with that of the general population. Estimates are age-standardised to adjust for changes in the age profile of cancer patients over time and differences between geographical areas.
Prostate cancer.The introduction of the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test during the 1990s increased the diagnosis of asymptomatic prostate cancers. Male diagnosed with prostate cancer in this way have higher survival than other men diagnosed with prostate cancer. There is continuing geographic variation in the usage of these tests, which will contribute to the geographical variation of survival estimated in prostate cancer.
Age-specific survival estimates are available for every combination of cancer site, geographical area and sex when they pass robustness tests. Age-standardised estimates are provided when all the age-specific estimates pass those tests.
More information on methodology can be found in the Quality and Methodology Information report, which also contains important information on:
In common with all the other cancer survival bulletins, this publication is based on the data summarised in the Cancer registration statistics, England statistical bulletin.
Estimates for England are the same as those presented in Cancer survival in England; combining diagnoses from across England allows for survival estimates to be presented for 31 cancer sites in total.
Users interested in survival estimates by cancer site, stage of diagnoses and subnational geographies should use this publication.
Estimates for CAs and STPs are also presented in the Index of cancer survival for Clinical Commissioning Groups in England for breast, colorectal and lung cancers and an index of all cancers combined.
The Index bulletin uses a different methodology to this publication. This means results presented here are not directly comparable with those from the Index. The main use for the Index of cancer survival in other geographies is the calculation of an all-cancer estimate of survival for small health geographies.
More information on the contents and uses of these publications can be found in the article Cancer statistics explained: different data sources and when they should be used. Statistics on cancer around the UK are produced in: