Table 2
Relative rank of cancer type based on predicted five-year relative survival ratio (RSR) at diagnosis and conditional on having survived five years, Canada excluding Quebec, 2004 to 2006

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Cancer type Five-year RSR rank Change in rank
At diagnosis Conditional on surviving five years
Testis 3 1 2
Thyroid 1 2 -1
Prostate 2 2 0
Skin melanoma 4 4 0
Corpus uteri 6 4 2
Colon 15 6 9
Cervix uteri 9 7 2
Hodgkin lymphoma 6 8 -2
Bladder (including in situ) 9 9 0
Kidney and renal pelvis 11 9 2
Rectum 13 11 2
Soft tissue 12 11 1
Breast 5 11 -6
Stomach 21 14 7
Leukemia (excluding CLL) 20 15 5
Oral (buccal cavity and pharynx) 15 16 -1
Pancreas 26 16 10
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 15 18 -3
Esophagus 25 19 6
Larynx 13 19 -6
Ovary 18 21 -3
Liver 23 21 2
Brain 22 23 -1
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) 8 23 -15
Lung and bronchus 24 25 -1
Multiple myeloma 19 26 -7
Source: Canadian Cancer Registry, Statistics Canada and provincial/territorial cancer registries.