Japan Data
Health
Science
08/05/2023
A study by the Japan National Cancer Center showed that the ten-year net survival rate is 53.3%, a result that reflects the importance of early screening. Complete healing is even possible for certain areas of the body if the disease is detected in time, such as breast or prostate cancer, for example.
According to the latest results established by the Japan National Cancer Center, 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 itself with the method commonly used internationally, the Center has changed its way of calculating, from relative survival rate to net survival rate. This counts deaths only when cancer is the sole cause, which explains why the figure of 53.3% is lower than in previous years. But the result is more faithful to reality and reflects an increase in the survival rate.
A more detailed examination of the 10-year survival rates for different types of cancer reveals that prostate cancer has the highest figure at 84.3%, followed by breast cancer in women at 83.1%, and then uterine cancer at 79.3%. Pancreatic cancer remains the one with the lowest rate, at 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%) concerns prostate cancer, followed by breast cancer (91.6%), and the lowest relates to pancreatic cancer (12.7%).
The 10-year survival rate according to the stage at which cancer is detected (stage 1 being the earliest of the four stages in the ranking) clearly shows the importance of rapid detection and treatment. For stomach cancer, the 10-year survival rate, which does not exceed 6.0% at stage 4, reaches 80.4% in case of detection at stage 1.
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