Cancer: Children
(asked on 3rd September 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the childhood cancer survival rate in each of the last five years.
The following table shows age and gender standardised overall one-year and five-year survival rates for children between the ages of zero and 14 years old in England, with the latest data being from 2020:
One-year overall survival data | ||||||
Year | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Patients | 1,415 | 1,428 | 1,307 | 1,381 | 1,319 |
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Overall Survival (%) | 94.3 | 92.9 | 93.0 | 93.6 | 93.3 |
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Source: Department of Health and Social Care
Five-year overall survival data | ||||||
Year | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Patients | 1,415 | 1,422 | 1,383 | 1,383 | 1,370 |
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Overall Survival (%) | 85.8 | 86.3 | 86.1 | 86.2 | 86.2 |
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Source: Department of Health and Social Care