Cancer Survival Trends
- Abstract
- Contains data on one- and five-year survival rates, by broad age group, for adult patients (aged 15-99 years) diagnosed with one of 23 less common cancers in England and Wales.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Cancer survival
- Variables
- Number of patients, survival, gender, age.
- Keywords
- Lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, survival
- Identifier Variables
- HA, country
- Area of Health System
- Public health
- Disease Area
- Cancer
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Office for National Statistics
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- Sample size varies each year by site of cancer. For example, for adrenal cancer, total number of patients diagnosed between 1991 -1995 was 186. While 138 patients were diagnosed between 1996 - 1999.
- Availability
- Office for National Statistics (ONS)
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.statistics.gov.u[…]Survival+Trends+Series+SMPS
- Contact
- Tel: +44(0)2075335261
- Publications
- Coleman MP, et al. Trends and socioeconomic inequalities in cancer survival in England and Wales up to 2001. British Journal of Cancer 2004; 90: 1367–1373