Lung Cancer Survival. A relative survival rate compares people with the same type and stage of cancer to people in the overall population. This falls to 13 8 surviving for five years or more as shown by age standardised net survival for patients diagnosed with lung cancer during 2013 2017 in england.
A relative survival rate compares people with the same type and stage of cancer to people in the overall population. About 22 percent of lung cancers are diagnosed at the regional stage. There are two basic types of lung cancer.
Unfortunately only 17 percent of lung cancers are diagnosed in this stage.
Small cell the most aggressive type of lung cancer and non small cell the most common type which includes several subtypes. Life expectancy for cancers is typically expressed as a 5 year survival rate the percent of patients who will be alive 5 years after diagnosis. For example if the 5 year relative survival rate for a specific stage of lung cancer is 60 it means that people who have that cancer are on average about 60 as likely as people who don t have that cancer to live for at least 5 years after being diagnosed. Small cell lung cancer.
