--- title: 66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years description: Two out of three Americans with invasive cancer are living five years or more after diagnosis, according to a new report from the CDC. canonical: https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-12T17:51:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:07:15.770Z article:section: Health og:title: 66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years og:description: Two out of three Americans with invasive cancer are living five years or more after diagnosis, according to a new report from the CDC. og:url: https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321275f4a3ef2fc7/6987835b5f570fedf9b15b79/171950796-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5126 og:image:height: 2883 og:image:alt: 171950796 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years twitter:description: Two out of three Americans with invasive cancer are living five years or more after diagnosis, according to a new report from the CDC. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321275f4a3ef2fc7/6987835b5f570fedf9b15b79/171950796-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 12, 2015 5:51 PM UTC  Senior woman in hospital gown Senior woman in hospital gown Getty Images by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 12, 2015 5:51 PM UTC Two out of three Americans with invasive cancer—the kind that has spread to nearby healthy tissue—are living five years or more after diagnosis, according to [a new report](http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6409a1.htm?s%5Fcid=mm6409a1%5Fw) from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data has shown that early detection and innovation in cancer treatment have increased the number of cancer survivors over the last several years, and the new report, published in the CDC’s [_Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report_](http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/)_,_ shows that even patients with invasive cancer have encouraging survival rates. To reach these numbers, CDC researchers looked at the number of cancer cases reported to U.S. cancer registries in 2011, the year of the most recently available data. That year saw 1,532,066 invasive cancer cases, or 451 cases per 100,000 people. The CDC reports that the most common cancer sites were prostate, breast, lung, and colon and rectum. The five-year survival rates for those cancers came out to 97% for prostate cancer, 88% for breast cancer, 63% for colorectal cancer and 18% for lung cancer. While the rates were relatively even among men and women, racial disparities existed; 65% of white people had a five-year relative survival rate, and 60% of black people had the same. In the report, the researchers say they hope public health experts use the data to determine what groups of people have higher rates of cancer and lower rates of survival. These groups may benefit most from cancer control efforts. “Using these data to effectively develop comprehensive cancer control programs, including supporting the needs of cancer survivors, can help reduce cancer incidence and improve survival,” the authors write. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/"},"headline":"66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years","datePublished":"2015-03-12T17:51:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:07:15.770Z","description":"Two out of three people with invasive cancer survive five years or more","url":"https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/","keywords":["Cancer","CDC"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321275f4a3ef2fc7/6987835b5f570fedf9b15b79/171950796-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt321275f4a3ef2fc7/6987835b5f570fedf9b15b79/171950796-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"171950796","caption":"171950796","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cancer/","name":"Cancer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3742308/americans-cancer-survival/","name":"66% of People Diagnosed with Cancer Survive At Least 5 Years"}}]}] ```