Abstract
ObjectivesAs part of the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) SURVMARK-2 project, we provide the most recent estimates of colon and rectal cancer survival in seven high-income countries by age and...
Highlights
Colon and rectal cancers (CRC) were the third most common cancer (1.8 million cases) and the second most common cause of cancer-related death (881,000 deaths) for both men and women worldwide in 2018.[1]
What is already known about this subject? Survival from colon and rectal cancer shows substantial geographical variation and differences in outcomes exist even across high-income countries
In previous analyses of CRC survival for patients diagnosed in 2000-2007, one-year net survival from colon cancer ranged between 80.2% in Australia and 67.4% in the United Kingdom (UK), whereas for rectal cancer it was highest in Sweden (84.4%) and lowest in the UK (75.2%).[4]
Summary
Colon and rectal cancers (CRC) were the third most common cancer (1.8 million cases) and the second most common cause of cancer-related death (881,000 deaths) for both men and women worldwide in 2018.[1]. In previous analyses of CRC survival for patients diagnosed in 2000-2007, one-year net survival from colon cancer ranged between 80.2% in Australia and 67.4% in the United Kingdom (UK), whereas for rectal cancer it was highest in Sweden (84.4%) and lowest in the UK (75.2%).[4] For both cancers, betweencountry differences in net survival were largest for the oldest age groups and for patients with more advanced stage of disease at diagnosis. One-year net survival for colon cancer patients with ‘localized’ stage ranged between 95.1% in Canada and 91.3% in the United Kingdom, compared with ‘distant’ stage ranging between 42.0% in Australia and 34.2% in the UK. Monitoring survival by stage at diagnosis remains vital to identify drivers of overall differences and to assess the effectiveness of national health systems
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