lymphoma cancer survival rate | Almost 40% of patients recover from their cancer

Almost 40% of patients recover from their cancer

Share this page on various community sites the National Cancer Institute has just published a report on the survival of patients with cancer.

Among the 320 000 patients who receive each year in France a diagnosis of cancer, more than 50 percent will be alive 5 years later (i.e. more than 165,000 persons) and at least 120 000 will heal. These are the conclusions of a report published by the national Institute of cancer (INCa), based on data for patients diagnosed before 2000. ------"Thanks to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatments, survival at 5 years in patients diagnosed in 2005, even in 2010, is and will be better-" adds the INCa.

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This report highlights the fact that all cancers don't evolve in the same way. Some, more and more numerous, heal. Others still retain a worse prognosis. There are cancers that evolve long term such chronic disease.

CNIB offers to classify the most common cancers into three major classes:

* cancers of good prognosis (42% of cases) including the 5-year survival is greater than or equal to 80%: prostate, breast, melanoma, thyroid, chronic lymphoid leukemia, testicular, Hodgkin disease lips;

* cancer of intermediate prognosis (33% of the cases) including the 5-year survival varies between 20 and 80% depending on the type of disease and especially its stage of extension: colon and rectum, mouth and pharynx, lymphomas non hodgkiniens, bladder, kidney, stomach, body and cervix Myeloma, ovary, larynx and acute leukemias;

* cancers of bad prognosis (17% of the cases) including the 5-year survival is less than or equal to 20%: Lung and pleura, liver, pancreas, esophagus, central nervous system.