As with most cancers, survival for melanoma skin cancer is improving. One-year
Melanoma skin cancer (C43), Age-Standardised One-Year Net Survival, Adults (Aged 15-99), England and Wales, 1971-2011
Five- and ten-year survival has increased by an even greater amount than one-year survival since the early 1970s. Five-year age-standardised net survival for melanoma skin cancer in men has increased from 40% during 1971-1972 to a predicted survival of 88% during 2010-2011 in England and Wales – an absolute survival difference of 47 percentage points.[1] In women, five-year survival has increased from 61% to 92% over the same time period (a difference of 32 percentage points).
Melanoma skin cancer (C43), Age-Standardised Five-Year Net Survival, Adults (Aged 15-99), England and Wales, 1971-2011
Five-year survival for 2010-2011 is predicted using an excess hazard statistical model
Ten-year age-standardised net survival for melanoma skin cancer in men has increased from 35% during 1971-1972 to a predicted survival of 86% during 2010-2011 in England and Wales – an absolute survival difference of 51 percentage points.[1] In women, ten-year survival has increased from 55% to 92% over the same time period (a difference of 38 percentage points). Overall, 9 in 10 people diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer today are predicted to survive their disease for at least ten years.
Melanoma skin cancer (C43), Age-Standardised Ten-Year Net Survival, Adults (Aged 15-99), England and Wales, 1971-2011
Ten-year survival for 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 is predicted using an excess hazard statistical model
References
- Data were provided by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on request, 2014.
- MacKie RM, Bray CA, Hole DJ, et al. Incidence of and survival from malignant melanoma in Scotland: an epidemiological study. Lancet 2002; 360:587-91.
- Downing A, Newton-Bishop JA, Forman D. Recent trends in cutaneous malignant melanoma in the Yorkshire region of England; incidence, mortality and survival in relation to stage of disease, 1993-2003. Br J Cancer 2006; 95:91-5.
- Murray CS, Stockton DL, Doherty VR. Thick melanoma: the challenge persists. Br J Dermatol 2005; 152:104-9.
About this data
Data is for: England and Wales, 1971-2011, ICD-10 C43