The survival rates of cancer have significantly improved over the years. For all types of cancers, the survival rate percentage has gone up thanks to technology and medicine.
Cancer Survival Rates by Type of Cancer
| Type of Cancer | Survival Rate |
| All sites | 69% |
| Brain & other nervous system | 34% |
| Breast (female) | 91% |
| Colon & rectum | 66% |
| Colon | 65% |
| Rectum | 69% |
| Esophagus | 21% |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 89% |
| Kidney & renal pelvis | 76% |
| Larynx | 62% |
| Leukemia | 66% |
| Liver & intrahepatic bile duct | 20% |
| Lung & bronchus | 21% |
| Melanoma of the skin | 94% |
| Myeloma | 54% |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 75% |
| Oral cavity & pharynx | 68% |
| Ovary | 48% |
| Pancreas | 10% |
| Prostate | 99% |
| Stomach | 32% |
| Testis | 97% |
| Thyroid | 99% |
| Urinary bladder | 78% |
| Uterine cervix | 69% |
| Uterine corpus | 83% |
Cancers with Highest Recovery Rate
Here see see a table of types of cancers, ordered by percent survival rate:
| Type of Cancer | Survival Rate |
| Prostate | 99% |
| Thyroid | 99% |
| Testis | 97% |
| Melanoma of the skin | 94% |
| Breast (female) | 91% |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 89% |
| Uterine corpus | 83% |
| Urinary bladder | 78% |
| Kidney & renal pelvis | 76% |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 75% |
| All sites | 69% |
| Rectum | 69% |
| Uterine cervix | 69% |
| Oral cavity & pharynx | 68% |
| Colon & rectum | 66% |
| Leukemia | 66% |
| Colon | 65% |
| Larynx | 62% |
| Myeloma | 54% |
| Ovary | 48% |
| Brain & other nervous system | 34% |
| Stomach | 32% |
| Esophagus | 21% |
| Lung & bronchus | 21% |
| Liver & intrahepatic bile duct | 20% |
| Pancreas | 10% |