A measure of the proportion of children diagnosed with any type of cancer in a year who are still alive five years after diagnosis.
This indicator attempts to capture the success of the NHS in preventing children from dying once they have been diagnosed with any type of cancer.
As of February 2021, please refer to the data tables published by Public Health England (PHE). This publication is released on an annual basis.
A link to the PHE publication, within which the data is held, is available via the resource link below. On the publication page select ‘Childhood cancer data tables’. The data for the indicator is displayed in Table 5.
Legacy unique identifier: P01744