Cancer survival - lung cancer

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    • Five-year relative survival for lung cancer has improved over time, from 14.5% in the period 1988–1997 to 20.9% for the period 2008–2017. Females had better survival (24.5%) than males (17.2%). People under the age of 65 had better survival than those aged 65 and over (26.9% and 17.6%, respectively). Despite the improvement over time, lung cancer remains a major cause of cancer mortality.1-7 Treatment remains difficult, though recently outcomes of treatments for lung cancer have shown significant progress.8

     

    References

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    2. ACT Cancer Registry. Canberra: ACT Cancer Registry; 2022 (unpublished data).

    3. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Life Tables, States, Territories and Australia, 2015-2017. Canberra: ABS; 2019 [cited 2022 Apr 6]. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12015-2017?OpenDocument=.

    4. ABS. Life Tables, States, Territories and Australia, 2014-2016. Canberra: ABS; 2018 [cited 2022 Apr 6]. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12014-2016?OpenDocument=.

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    6. ABS. Life Tables, States, Territories and Australia, 2012-2014. Canberra: ABS; 2016 [cited 2022 Apr 6]. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12012-2014?OpenDocument=.

    7. ABS. Life Tables, States, Territories and Australia, 2011-2013. Canberra: ABS; 2015 [cited 2022 Apr 6]. Available from: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12011-2013?OpenDocument=.

    8. Schenk EL, Patil T, Pacheco J, Bunn PA Jr. 2020 Innovation-Based Optimism for Lung Cancer Outcomes. Oncologist 2021; 26(3): e454-e472.

     

    The authors wish to thank the Registries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, the Coroners and the National Coronial Information System for enabling the cause of death unit record file data to be used for this publication.

     

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