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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis — C‑11

Status: Baseline only

  
Baseline only
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Most Recent Data:
64.1 percent (2014)

Target:
66.2 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
64.1 percent of persons with cancer were living 5 years or longer after diagnosis and were followed up to determine their status in 2014

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Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis

Target-Setting Method
Projection

Data Sources:  National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR), CDC/NCCDPHP; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER), NIH/NCI

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Summary

Cancer survival rates are an important way to measure the success of efforts to improve health outcomes for people with cancer. Although survival rates have increased over time, racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, biologic, and geographic disparities remain. Developing effective targeted therapies and using preventive strategies for all groups are key to helping people with cancer live longer.

Topic:  Cancer

Workgroup: Cancer Workgroup

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