Journal Article

Cancer survival in the United States 2007–2016: Results from the National Program of Cancer Registries

Senkomago, Virginia, Richardson, Lisa C., Henley, S. Jane, Wilson, Reda J., Ellington, Taylor D., Benard, Vicki, Wu, Manxia

2023

Overview

Cancer survival has improved for the most common cancers. However, less improvement and lower survival has been observed in some groups perhaps due to differential access to cancer care including prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. To further understand contemporary relative cancer survival (one- and five- year), we used survival data from CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) for cancers diagnosed during 2007-2016. We examined overall relative cancer survival by sex, race and ethnicity, age, and county-level metropolitan and non-metropolitan status. Relative cancer survival by metropolitan and non-metropolitan status was further examined by sex, race and ethnicity, age, and cancer type. Among persons with cancer diagnosed during 2007-2016 the overall one-year and five-year relative survival was 80.6% and 67.4%, respectively. One-year relative survival for persons living in metropolitan counties was 81.1% and 77.8% among persons living in non-metropolitan counties. We found that persons who lived in non-metropolitan counties had lower survival than those who lived in metropolitan counties, and this difference persisted across sex, race and ethnicity, age, and most cancer types. Further examination of the differences in cancer survival by cancer type or other characteristics might be helpful for identifying potential interventions, such as programs that target screening and early detection or strategies to improve access to high quality cancer treatment and follow-up care, that could improve long-term outcomes. This analysis provided a high-level overview of contemporary cancer survival in the United States.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science
• Subject: 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES / Age / Black people / Cancer / Cancer detection and diagnosis / Cancer treatment / Cancers and neoplasms / Care and treatment / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S / Classification schemes / Colorectal cancer / Diagnosis / Ethnicity / Evaluation / Hispanic Americans / Humans / Impact analysis / Kidney cancer / Lung and intrathoracic tumors / Medical diagnosis / Medicine and Health Sciences / Minority & ethnic groups / Mortality / National Program of Cancer Registries / Native North Americans / Neoplasms - epidemiology / Neoplasms - therapy / Pacific Islander people / Patients / Prevention / Prostate / Prostate cancer / Race / Registries / Renal cancer / Rural areas / Rural Population / Science & Technology - Other Topics / Screening / Sex / Skin cancer / Skin tumors / Survival / Target detection / United States / United States - epidemiology / Urban Population / White people