Definitions for "FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL RATE"
For cancer, the percentage of people (the number of people out of 100) diagnosed with cancer who have not died of cancer within five years of diagnosis.
the percentage of people with a given cancer who are expected to survive 5 years or longer after diagnosis. Five-year survival rates are based on the most recent information available, but they may include information from patients treated several years earlier. These numbers do not take into account advances in treatment that have often occurred. They are not helpful in predicting an individual case. They only paint a very general picture of how people in the past have done with the same type of cancer. See also relative 5-year survival rate.
The percentage of people with a given cancer who are expected to survive five years or longer with the disease. Five-year survival rates, while statistically valid, should not be seen as a predictor in individual cases.