Global Study Looks At Cancer Survival Rate Around World

Washington (dbTechno) - A global study looked at cancer survival worldwide, and found major differences among countries.

The study was led by Michel Coleman from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and involved 125 researchers who all analyzed data on two-million patients across 31 countries.

All of the patients suffered from breast, colon, and rectum cancer in women, as well as prostate cancer in men.

Patients were all diagnosed between 1990 and 1994, and were followed to see their survival rate over a period of 5-years.

The study was published this week in the journal Lancet Oncology, and found that the United States beat out the majority of countries in five-year survival, along with France and Japan.

Europe was found to have the lower cancer survival rate compared to America.

The worst countries were found in Eastern Europe, with Algeria at th ebottom.

Even within the U.S., they varied greatly depending on race. Whites were found to have a 6 to 16% better survival rate depending on the type of cancer than African-Americans.