In stark contrast, the five year survival rate for lung cancer is 8.8% for women and 7.4% for men.
"Almost 7, 000 women a year are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and the five year survival rate is very low at 30%", said Frances Reid, the charity's director of public affairs.
Women diagnosed at the earliest stage of ovarian cancer have a five-year survival rate of 92%, but the five-year survival rate in the UK is just 36%, amongst the worst in Europe.
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The five-year survival rate upon diagnosis is between 35 and 50 percent, he adds.
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The five-year survival rate for those diagnosed at a local stage of disease is 91 percent.
Over time he increased patients' five-year survival rate in the same population to 70%.
It's also one of the most deadly, with a five-year survival rate of just 17%.
For example: Page 16 shows a 70% five-year survival rate for stage IV carcinoma of the tongue.
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Some, often with a financial interest, even note that screening increases the five-year survival rate, which is true.
The five-year survival rate is 98% for women whose breast cancer tumors are discovered at their earliest stage.
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with a five-year survival rate of 5.5%.
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Deaths were generally violent, and recently introduced characters had a five-year survival rate.
Women who suffered delays of more than three months but less than six had a 5% lower five-year survival rate.
Insulinomas have a five-year survival rate of 80%, and gastrinomas have 65%.
Overall, the five-year survival rate is only about 5 percent.
Freeman then was a breast cancer surgeon in Harlem, New York, trying to figure out why patients in his hospital had a five-year survival rate of 39% when it should have been closer to 85%.
And today, because of that work, the number of women getting regular mammograms has dramatically increased, and the five-year survival rate when breast cancer is diagnosed in time is 98 percent -- and that's compared to 74 percent in the early 80s.
Women in deprived areas were less likely to be given radiotherapy and, on average, had a lower rate of five-year survival.
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