Cancer Patient Survival Rate
Factors affecting lung cancer survival rate
The lung cancer survival rates are based on several factors, including the severity of the disease, how far it has spread in the patient body, in the case of small cell or non-small cell and overall health. External factors such as gender and race may also play an important role in survival rates. The survival rate is an indication of the number of patients who survive for five years or longer with the disease, but do not indicate the type of treatment the patient is receiving or if the disease is limited to cured or controlled.
The general state of health of a patient can affect their ability to survive for five years or more. Those in good health have a higher rate high survival. In any form or stage of lung cancer, a patient who has strong, healthy lungs, in general, be able to survive longer than someone who is not healthy. Having other medical conditions not related to lung cancer can also reduce the survival rate.
Gender may also be a factor in the survival rate. Women tend to have a higher survival rate than men in all stages and forms of lung cancer. The overall survival rate five years is 16 per cent of women and 12 percent for men. The reason for this difference are not yet known. The researchers understand that lung cancer is different for women than men, but are not yet sure why. Some have postulated that genetic differences may cause women more vulnerable to disease and that the hormone estrogen in some way could affect the development of cancer.
Another factor in the equation survival rate is race. Black men tend to have the lowest five-year survival of all patients with lung cancer, followed by whites. The men of other races such as Asians, Native Americans and Hispanics, followed by white men. Again, the reasons for this difference in survival rate are not entirely clear.
Smoking not only contributes to the risk of developing lung cancer, but also the survival rate in those who already have disease. Those who smoked before being diagnosed, but were able to quit smoking after being diagnosed were twice as likely to survive five years or more than those who did not give up. This may be related to general health problems related to smoking. In a patient with lung cancer the dangerous effects of smoking on the body can play in the survival rate.
No matter how they got lung cancer, the treatment of a patient play their chances of survival. Patients who are able to tolerate the treatment have a higher survival rate than those who are too ill to receive treatment for the disease.
Other factors have more to do with lung cancer itself. For example, a patient who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer have a higher survival rate than someone who was previously diagnosed. People with recurrent lung cancer has returned after they were already being treated a lower rate of survival at five years.
All these factors and survival rates for five years are approximate, however. Each patient is different. The individual factors always come into play when evaluating the survival rate of lung cancer. All survival rates can do is give a general idea of what has happened with a similar group of people.
About the Author
Adam Bradley is a book publisher. While doing research on asbestos; http://asbestoscancerresources.com/survival-rates-lung-cancer/: he was shocked by the amount of poor information. His research team compiled a directory of agencies, medical centers and groups that provide real help to the victims and families. He offers a free 15 part Mini-Course to help as many as possible: http://asbestoscancerresources.com
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