BREATHING IN A NEW ERA
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LUNG CANCER POLICIES ACROSS EUROPE
Netherlands, have seen their rates fall over the years, leading to Poland having the highest rate today.
Sweden has consistently had the lowest rate, although Finland is now running a close second.
Figure 7 depicts average five-year survival rates of adults with lung cancer for each country from
three time periods: 2000-04, 2005-09 and 2010-14.^25 All countries show an upward trend, with Sweden
and Norway having the steepest increases in survival (although compared with most other cancers,
survival rates remain frustratingly low: five-year survival for both breast and prostate cancers exceed
80% in Europe). Although Romania’s survival rates are lower than the other ten countries, they follow a
positive trend. Austria has continually had the highest five-year survival results. In 2010-14, the five-year
survival rate was 19.7%.Figure 7: Lung cancer 5-year survival rate
(^) (adults 15-99 years, age standardised, %)
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