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Survival Statistics for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer Fast Facts

by Donna Myers
for About.com

Updated: June 23, 2007

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The average survival rate for people five years after diagnosis with colorectal cancer is:

  • 62% in Korea
  • 61% in the United States
  • 76% in Victoria, Australia

In Korea, the survival rate for people five years after initial diagnosis with:

In the United States, the survival rate for people five years after initial diagnosis with:

In Victoria, Australia, the survival rate for people five years after initial diagnosis with:

The average survival rate for people five years after initial diagnosis with:

  • Low-grade MALT lymphoma of the bowel is 44% - 75%
  • High-grade MALT lymphoma of the bowel is 25% - 37%
  • Large B cell lymphoma of the bowel is 25% - 67%

The average survival rate for people five years after initial diagnosis with signet ring cell of the colon or rectum is:

  • 19% in Europe
  • 15% in Germany
  • 18% in the United States

Sources:

  1. American Cancer Society. How is Colorectal Cancer Staged?
  2. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 2002;72:352-356. Survival from Colorectal Cancer in Victoria: 10-Year Follow-Up of the 1987 Management Survey.
  3. European Journal of Cancer. 2003;39:2214-2222. Differences in Colorectal Cancer Survival Between Europe and U.S. Populations: The Importance of Sub-Site and Morphology.
  4. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery. 2004;(389)3:178-183. Primary Signet-Ring Cell Carcinoma of the Colorectum. (From patients treated at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 1978-1999.)
  5. Oncology Reports. 10: 3-8, 2003. Gastrointestinal malignant non Hodgkins B cell lymphomas in the immunocompetent patient.
  6. VA Medical Center of Houston. Hematology-Oncology Section.
  7. World Journal of Surgery. 1999;23(7):721-726. Prognostic Factors in 2230 Korean Colorectal Cancer Patients: Analysis of Consecutively Operated Cases.

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