Cancer Survival in England, cancers diagnosed 2016 to 2020, followed up to 2021

Cancer registrations in England can take up to 5 years after the end of a given calendar year to reach 100% completeness, due to the continuing accrual of late registrations. Please see the Cancer Registrations Statistics bulletin for more information. 

Estimates for CAs and STPs are also presented in the Index of cancer survival for Clinical Commissioning Groups in England for breast, bowel and lung cancers and an index of all cancers combined. 

The index bulletin uses a different methodology to this publication. This means results presented here are not directly comparable with those from the Index. The main use for the Index of cancer survival in other geographies is the calculation of an all-cancer estimate of survival for small health geographies. 

Statistics on cancer around the UK are produced in: 

• Scotland by the  Scottish Cancer Registry 

• Wales by the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit 

• Northern Ireland by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry