Cancer cure statistics questions I have a question about cancer cure statistics. Many of the cancer literature or databases I have come across speak about 5 year or 10 year survival rates. In this case survival means that the patient with cancer is still alive 5 or 10 years after diagnosis. I am in need of references about the statistics which explain what is the percentage of people in these groups who are in progression-free survival group and disease-free survival group. That is for instance among the cancer patients which survive for some X years, who are completely cured of cancer (which means that the cancer is completely cured and has not reoccured with in this X years). Update: USA data is preferred Thanks

I would caution you against using phrases such as "completely cured" or even "cured". This goes beyond our technical ability to detect the presence of tumor cells within someone's body. All we can conclude is progression-free survival (i.e. living with cancer that does not get worse) or disease-free survival (i.e. or no signs or symptoms of the tumor). Many of these data are included in cancer trials along with overall survival rates. Some general statistics for many groups of cancers can be found here: <

And a glossary of terms used in reporting cancer statistics here: <