Treating lung cancer
The big picture
of all cancer deaths1
three
2
3
1,590,000 deaths
307,000 deaths
694,000 deaths
522,000 deaths
Diagnosis, staging & treatment 4,5
Instances
55%
five year survival rate
References
28%
five year survival rate
Survival %
4%
five year survival rate
1. Cancer Research UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/worldwide-cancer#heading-Three. Accessed September 2016
2. WHO. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs297/en/ Calculation by Roche - 1.59 million deaths per year / 365 days – 4,356 deaths per day / 24 hours =
181 deaths per hour / 60 minutes = 3 deaths per minute
3. GLOBOCAN. http://globocan.iarc.fr/Pages/fact_sheets_cancer.aspx
4. Goldstraw et al. The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for the Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Seventh)
Edition of the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2007; 2: 706-714
5. National Cancer Institute. SEER Stat Fact Sheets: Lung and Bronchus Cancer. Available at: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/lungb.html