2023-05-08 00:00:02
Japan Data
Health Science
A study by the National Cancer Center of Japan showed that the ten-year net survival rate is 53.3%, a result that reflects the importance of early detection. Complete recovery is even possible depending on the part of the body concerned if the pathology is detected in time, such as breast or prostate cancer for example.
The latest results from the National Cancer Center of Japan show that the 10-year cancer survival rate for patients diagnosed in 2010 is 53.3%. These statistics concerned 340,000 people.
From now on, in order to align with the method commonly used internationally, the Center has changed the way it calculates, moving from the relative survival rate to the net survival rate. This counts deaths only when cancer is the only cause, which explains why the figure of 53.3% is lower than in previous years. But the result is more faithful to reality and translates into facts an increase in the survival rate.
A closer look at 10-year survival rates by cancer type reveals that prostate cancer topped the list at 84.3%, followed by female breast cancer at 83.1 %, then from the uterus, at 79.3%. Pancreatic cancer remains the lowest rate, with 5.4%.
Furthermore, the 5-year net survival rate for 940,000 people diagnosed in 2014 and 2015 is 66.2%. The highest rate (95.1%) is for prostate cancer, followed by breast cancer (91.6%), and the lowest is for pancreatic cancer (12.7%).
The 10-year survival rate according to the stage at which the cancer was detected (stage 1 being the earliest of the four stages in the classification) clearly shows the importance of the speed of detection and treatment. For stomach cancer, the 10-year survival rate, which does not exceed 6.0% at stage 4, reaches 80.4% in the event of detection at stage 1.
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