Testicular Cancer survival statistics

Testicular cancer survival statistics are presented here including one, five and ten year survival, survival by histology, and international comparisons.

The latest cancer survival statistics available are for patients diagnosed in the period 2005-2009. We are currently working to update all the survival pages on this site. Find out why more up to date statistics are not yet available.

One, five and ten-year testicular cancer survival rates
Testicular cancer survival rates by histology

International comparison of testicular cancer survival rates

Since the introduction of combination chemotherapy in the 1970s, survival rates for testicular cancer have risen every year to cure rates of over 95%.

The latest population-based five- and ten-year survival rates for all patients registered in England and Wales are both 98% ( Figure 3.1) 1, 2.

Figure 3.1 :One-, five- and ten-year relative survival for testicular cancer patients diagnosed 1971-2001, England and Wales

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Much of the increase has been due to improvements in the treatment (see Treatment section) of ( metastatic testicular cancer ( Figure 3.2).

Figure 3.2: Ten-year actuarial survival for patients with disseminated nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumours (IGCCCG classification)

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Before 1970, only around 5% of patients with metastatic testicular cancer survived, but around 80% survive today - a highly unusual result for a metastatic solid tumour. 3, 4

International comparisons reveal that testicular cancer is one of the few cancers for which survival rates in the UK equal or even exceed those recorded in Europe ( Figure 3.3). 1

Figure 3.3: International comparisons of five-year relative survival, England and Wales (1986-90), Scotland and Europe (1985-89) and the USA (1986-90)