The bone cancer survival rate is based on a statistical research conducted amongst thousands of people who are or had experienced bone cancer at a certain stage and the duration to which most of them were able to survive a 5 year period. Basically, a bone cancer survival rate is the percentage of people whose life extended 5 years after being diagnosed with the cancer.
No matter what people tell you, a cancer survival rate is only used as a basis and will not exactly predict the life duration of a patient whose been diagnosed with bone cancer. Each case will vary greatly on the patient himself and even those who were predicted to last for only a couple of months were able to last more than 5 years and counting.
From the statistical report showed by EmedTV, the over-all bone cancer survival rate from the year 1995-2001 was at 69%. With the advancement made in orthopedic medicine within the recent years, medical practitioners and the patients themselves hope that chances of survival will increase in the present times.
Most cancer cases are now diagnosed at the early stages, when the cancer is still in the localized stage. This comprises 41% of all patients diagnosed with this type of cancer. However, the number of cases diagnosed at the 2nd or 3rd stage of this cancer is still pretty high at 36%. Fifteen percent is diagnosed at the later stage, when the cancer has already metastasized and prognosis is reasonably low. And then the remaining 8% is cancer of the bone with vague or unknown staging information.
With proper treatment and diagnosis, this type of cancer at stage 0-1 has a relative survival percentage at 85%. This stage is commonly called localized stage because the cancer is confirmed in a certain bone area and not yet proliferated towards surrounding tissues. During stages 2 and 3, the rate of survival will lower down to 69%, under which the cancer has then infected the surrounding tissues. From 69% at stages 2 and 3, the rate will significantly move down to half the percentage at 31 percent as the cancer cells infects the major organs of the body at stage 4.
In the us, cancer of the bone is more prevalent among Caucasian men and African-American women with survival rates at 68% for both of these classes. Their counterparts (Caucasian females and African-American males) have a higher bone cancer survival rate at 72% and 70% respectively.
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