Five-year survival rate of children with cancer diagnosis by type and country

This statistic displays the five-year survival rate in children with diagnosed cancer, by selected locations, time periods, and type of cancer. In Australia, children with leukaemias had a five-year chance of survival of over 80 percent in the measured period 1997-2006. In comparison, Chinese children with leukaemias in Shanghai had a chance of little more than 50 percent to survive five years (measured in the period 2002-2005).

Five-year survival rates in children with diagnosed cancer in periods between 1990 and 2006, by country and type of cancer

Characteristic	Australia (1997-2006)	Shanghai, China (2002-2005)	Chennai, India (1990-2001)	Thailand (2003-2004)
All cancers	79.6%	55.7%	40%	54.9%
Leukaemias	80.6%	52.2%	36.3%	57.4%
Lymphomas	89.9%	58.8%	55.3%	59.5%
Central nervous system tumours	71%	41.2%	26.8%	41.7%
Neuroblastoma*	67.8%	-	36.9%	33.6%
Retinoblastoma	98.4%	75%	48.1%	73.1%
Renal cancers	88.6%	86.7%	58%	70.4%
Malignant bone tumours	68.9%	52.6%	30.6%	33.7%
Soft tissue sacromas	72.1%	54.1%	36.3%	50.1%
Germ cell tumours	89.4%	78.4%	38%	70.6%
Carcinomas and melanoma**	93.3%	88.9%	35.1%	-
Other***	72.2%	-	-	-

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Release date

February 2014

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1990 to 2006

Age group

0-14 years

Supplementary notes

* No figure available for Shanghai (China).
** No figures available for Thailand.
*** No figures available for Shanghai (China), Chennai (India) and Thailand.

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