This publication supersedes the Cancer patient survival covering the period 1994 to 2003 publication released by the Ministry of Health in 2006.
The cancer registration data analysed in this report is from the years 1994 to 2007, with follow-up (mortality) information to 31 December 2009.
The publication shows a broad overview of cancer survival in New Zealand, and groups cancer patients into 24 site groupings. The data is further broken down by age, sex, ethnicity, extent of disease and deprivation. Survival has been calculated for up to ten years after the date of diagnosis.
The data has also been analysed over time, to show how five-year survival has changed between 1998 and 2007.
The 24 cancer groupings covered in the publication are:
- all adult cancers
- head, neck and larynx
- oesophagus
- stomach
- colorectum and anus
- liver and intrahepatic bile ducts
- pancreas
- trachea, bronchus and lung
- melanoma of the skin
- female breast
- cervix uteri
- corpus uteri
- ovary
- prostate
- testis
- bladder
- kidney, ureter and urethra
- brain
- thyroid gland
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- non-Hodgkin lymphoma myeloma leukaemia – all forms
- childhood cancers