cancer: It found that while the chances of surviving cancer have improved in the UK, they have not caught up with other countries, which are also doing better thanks to new technologies and efforts to catch the disease at an earlier stage before it becomes hard to treat, according to The Guardian. Better surgery, in particular, led to a rise in five-year survival rates for colon cancer in the UK from 48% to 62%. One-year survival for lung, ovarian and oesophageal cancer all increased by about 15 percentage points over the 20 years. The study looked at one-year and five-year survival of cancer patients in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and the UK between 1995 and 2014. However, the UK fared worst of the countries examined in four of the seven cancers measured by five-year survival rates rectal, pancreatic, lung and stomach. Over the last 20 years we've seen improvements in cancer planning, development of national cancer strategies and the rollout of new diagnostic and treatment services. Australia high cancer survival rates attributed to earlier detection Read more John Butler, a co-author of the study and clinical adviser to Cancer Research UK, said There isn't one specific reason why survival in the UK has improved it's a combination of many different factors.
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