Cancer Incidence and Survival

Question 1

What are the 5, 10 and 20 year survival rates for breast cancer?

Answer 1

5 year 85%; 10 year 76% and 20 year 61%.

Question 2

What are the 5 and 10 year survival rates for prostate cancer?

Answer 2

5 year 86%; 10 year 77%

Question 3

What are the 5 and 10 year survival rates for lung cancer?

Answer 3

5 year 16.2%; 10 year 9.5%

Question 4

What are the 5 and 10 year survival rates for colorectal cancer?

Answer 4

5 year 58.4%; 10 year 52.9%

Question 5

What are the four most common cancers in men in order?

Answer 5

Prostate, lung, Colorectal, Head and neck

Question 6

What are the four most common cancers in women in order?

Answer 6

Breast, lung, colorectal, uterus

Question 7

What is the definition of a cancer survivor according to Macmillan?

Answer 7

Someone who has completed initial adjuvant treatment and has no signs of active disease.

Someone who is living with progressive disease and may be receiving active treatment but is not in the terminal stage of illness.

Someone who has had cancer in the past.

Question 8

What is the difference between incidence and prevalence?

Answer 8

Incidence refers to the number of new cases diagnosed a year, whilst prevalence refers to the number of people living with a particular cancer at any given time.

Question 9

What are the most prevalent cancers in the UK? then what are the 3 most prevalent cancers in men and women separately?

Answer 9

Breast, prostate, and colorectal.

For men- prostate, colorectal, malignant melanoma

For women- Breast, colorectal, uterus