Learn more about the SEER program. Say, the mortality rate in the group of people is 5 percent. Similarly, the number of people in a group who survive depends on the number of people who die. Say, people are in the group and 1 person dies. This numbers helps show the burden of breast cancer in a group of people. Numbers, however, can be hard to compare to each other. To compare mortality or survival in different populations, we need to look at mortality rates rather than the number of breast cancer deaths.
Say, town A has a population of , and town B has a population of 1, Over a year, say there are breast cancer deaths in town A and breast cancer deaths in town B.
The number of breast cancer deaths in each town is the same. However, many more people live in town A than live in town B. So, the mortality rates are quite different. In town A, there were 10 breast cancer deaths among , people. Although the number of deaths was the same in town A and town B, the mortality rate was much higher in town B 10 percent than in town A less than 1 percent.
Of the 3, California has the highest number of breast cancers. Fewer women live in Alabama and Washington, D. So, to compare breast cancer mortality survival , we need to look at mortality rates. In , the estimated mortality rates are [ ]:. So, while Washington D. There is so much more to life than the diagnosis isn't there? I have invented a few tricks to use whenever I think I'm being fobbed off, but usually I have to say that the medics do their best.
And, although I am a terribly demanding and difficult patient, in the main my doctors and nurses have worked their socks off doing their best for me.
Please keep rested and be careful and gentle with yourself. There is so much rubbish on the internet and the statistics I found were never very helpful. And nothing on Google really applied to me- I used to make myself tired trawling through info for a shred of hope when in fact I had hope with me all along.
In the end I used to ask my friends to do the research to save me the heartache. Survival rates for breast cancer are fairly high in comparison to some other types of cancer. My own cancer has pretty lousy survival rates. These stats off the CRUK website may help Traditionally 5 years has been held up as statistically significant and as a result there's lots of stuff on the Internet about 5 year survival rates - the stats above cover 10 years too.
My oncologist told me that the longer people survive the more likely they are to survive a long time. This sounds illogical at first, but if you put all the patients on a graph, some die within 12 months of diagnosis, others within 5 years if they survive the first year but an awful lot who make it to five years are still around after ten years.
I hope this makes sense. It felt like this was the longest. We were devastated but focused on aiming for breaking records and quality of life. I believe that by gaining knowledge you can impact your quality of life and survival rate.
What type of cancer do you have? I try to watch out for these things without letting it take over. But I agree, get some advice, andtackle it head on. We got a specialist care nurse from our local hospice and her knowledge in dealing with symptoms and side effects has been fabulous. In the last year Debs has had three different chemo treatments and one targeted therapy, five hospital stays and also three foreign and two driving holidays in between those treatments.
My Mother In Law, for example lived for forty years after her diagnosis. She sadly died within two months of her diagnosis with ovarian cancer. Sadly, this post is about the very different animal; Secondary Breast Cancer. Average survival rates for this appear to be at 3. It appears to depend on what type of Breast Cancer the person has. I hope you manage to be a record breaker for your own cancer and feel as well as you can. I've now been in remission for 2 years.
Thanks Mamacass67! That's exactly the sort of thing I needed to hear. Gives me something to aim for! You must be some strong lady! Onwards and upwards and all that. And it's been worth the struggle for me so far- two grandchildren I never thought I'd see, and one on the way!
A NCI study showed that from — and —, the 5-year survival rate for women ages 15 to 49 years old diagnosed with distant breast cancer doubled, from 18 percent to 36 percent. The ACS reports that the year average survival rate for women diagnosed with breast cancer is 84 percent. Another study of over 4, young women with breast cancer found that the year survival rate for the women with tumors smaller than 2 cm was 89 percent.
For those with tumors equal to 2 cm, it was 86 percent, and for those with larger tumors, the survival rate was 81 percent. The average rate for women surviving at least 15 years after being diagnosed with breast cancer is 80 percent.
Statistics are not available for survival rates by cancer stage. Researchers have found that women diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer have higher year survival rates than those diagnosed with stage 2, 3, or 4 breast cancer. Each advanced stage has lower survival rates than earlier stages. This was true regardless of whether the women had surgery, surgery with radiation therapy, or a combination of treatments including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and endocrine therapy.
Generally, the earlier breast cancer is diagnosed and treated, the higher the chances for long-term survival. White women in the United States are most likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
Between and , There is, however, variation within that group: non-Hispanic white women were far more likely to have been diagnosed than Hispanic white women. Black women are the second most likely group to get breast cancer From to , Asian and Pacific Islander women had the lowest death rate, at This was followed by Hispanic women Black women had the highest death rate, at This could possibly be due to a lack of access to care.
Socioeconomic factors seem to affect disparity in breast cancer mortality. These include:. A study found that black women may have more difficulty than white women affording and obtaining endocrine therapy to help increase their survival rates.
To help reduce this racial disparity in breast cancer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC reports that public health agencies are attempting to ensure that all women are able to receive screening and treatment.
The most important factor that affects breast cancer survival is whether the cancer has metastasized, or spread to other body organs. The earlier the diagnosis, the greater the chance of treating breast cancer before it advances.
Some types of breast cancer are more aggressive than others. Five-year survival rates tend to be lower for women diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer TNBC. TNBC is more likely to spread and recur, especially in the first 3 to 5 years.
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