5-Year Survival for Selected Types of Cancer

Type

5-year Survival (%)

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (children and adults)

72.0

Acute myeloid leukemia

31.9

Bladder

78.4

Bones and joints

68.2

Brain and other nervous system

33.4

Breast (female)

91.1

Cervix

67.4

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia

88.5

Chronic myeloid leukemia

70.0

Colon and rectum

65.0

Esophagus

21.6

Hodgkin lymphoma

88.9

Kidney and renal pelvis

768.1

Larynx

61.5

Liver and intrahepatic bile duct

21.7

Lung and bronchus

26.7

Melanoma

94.1

Myeloma

61.1

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

74.3

Oral cavity and pharynx

69.0

Ovary

50.9

Pancreas

12.8

Prostate

97.5

Soft tissue (including heart cancer)

65.9

Small intestine

70.2

Stomach

36.4

Testis

95.0

Thyroid

98.4

Uterus

80.8

Vulva

69.6

Data from the United States National Cancer Institute: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results Program. https://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/ . Information represents 5-year relative survival, 2014–2020.