Diagnosis Cancer: Survival Rates Increased

63 percent of all Austrians who received a cancer diagnosis between 2015 and 2019 were still alive five years later. In the diagnosis period from 2010 to 2014, it was only 61 percent, according to data from the National Cancer Registry of Statistics Austria.

Survival Chances After Cancer Diagnosis Increased

The most important factors influencing the chances are tumor location and stage at diagnosis. Good prognoses are mainly for testicular and thyroid cancers, with 96 and 95 percent respectively still alive after five years. Malignant tumors of the prostate and breast also have higher survival probabilities (95 and 88 percent respectively). The odds are poor after this period for lung cancer (25 percent), esophageal cancer (22 percent), liver cancer (18 percent), and pancreatic cancer (12 percent).

From 1983 to 2023, about 1.5 million new cases were recorded in the cancer registry for about 1.4 million people. Of these, 418,740 were still alive at the beginning of 2024, including 217,904 women and 200,836 men - about five out of 100 people in Austria.

Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer Most Common

The overall picture of new cases has remained unchanged. In 2023, 21,821 women and 24,697 men in Austria received a cancer diagnosis. The most common were malignant tumors of the breast in women (6,902 cases) and malignant tumors of the prostate in men (7,485 cases), followed by malignant tumors of the lung (5,232 cases, both genders combined) and malignant tumors of the colon or rectum (4,690 cases, both genders combined).

(APA/Red)

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