Survival rates after a cancer diagnosis have continued to increase in Austria thanks to medical advances. 63 percent of those diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2019 were still alive five years later.
In the diagnosis period 2010 to 2014, this was only 61 percent, according to data from the National Cancer Register of Statistics Austria. At the beginning of 2024, 418,740 Austrians were living with a cancer diagnosis.
Cancers and their prognosis
The main factors that affect the chances include the location of the tumor and the stage at diagnosis. There are particularly good prognosis for the testicles and the thyroid gland, of which 96 and 95 percent respectively are still alive after five years. Malignant tumors of the prostate and breast are also among the tumors with higher survival rates (95 and 88 percent, respectively). After this period, the maps are bad for cancer in the lungs (25 percent), esophagus (22 percent), liver (18 percent) and pancreas (twelve percent).
From 1983 to 2023, approximately 1.5 million new cases in approximately 1.4 million people were recorded in the cancer registry. Of these, 418,740 were still alive at the beginning of 2024, of which 217,904 were women and 200,836 were men – about five in 100 people in Austria.
Breast and prostate cancer are the most common
The overall picture of new cases has remained unchanged. In 2023, 21,821 women and 24,697 men were diagnosed with cancer in Austria. The most common were malignant tumors of the breast in women (6902 cases) and malignant tumors of the prostate in men (7485 cases), followed by malignant tumors of the lung (5232 cases, both sexes combined) and malignant tumors of the colon or the large intestine. rectum (4690 cases, both sexes together).
Source: Krone
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