Japan 5-Year Cancer Survival Rate at 65.2 Pct .
Tokyo, Aug. 9 (Jiji Press)–The five-year survival rate of cancer patients in Japan stands at 65.2 pct, the National Cancer Center said in a survey report on Wednesday. The survey covered some 214,500 people diagnosed with cancer in 2008 at 209 of 425 designated hospitals as of 2015 for cancer treatment.
This was the second disclosure ever of results of a cancer survival survey covering so-called core hospitals combatting the disease in the country. The latest survey on the five-year survival rate, which shows how likely patients diagnosed with cancer will be alive that long, excludes patients who died of other causes. JIJI PRESS