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Chart 1: Cancer M:I ratio (selected countries and regions), 2018
Source: Cancer Today 2018, EIU calculations.
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Oceania
North America
Mexico
Costa Rica
Brazil
Colombia
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Chile
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Uruguay
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Table 3: Five-year net survival rate (%) for selected cancers, 2010-
Country five-year net survivalBreast cancer five-year net survivalLung cancer five-year net survivalProstate cancer five-year net survivalColon cancer
Argentina 84.4 13.1 8 7. 6 54.
Brazil 75.2 8.5 91.6 48.
Chile 75.5 4.6 82 43.
Colombia 72 .1 8.7 80.3 34.
Costa Rica 86.7 20.1 93.2 6 0.
Ecuador 75.5 12. 2 82.2 47. 8
Peru 84 - - 59
Uruguay - 9 86.5 53.
US 90.2 21.2 97. 4 64.
UK 85.6 13. 3 88.7 60
Source: C Allemani et al., “Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records
for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries”, Lancet, 2018.