Statistics of Cervical Cancer

Executive Summary

The incidence rates of cervical cancer decreased by more than 50% from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s because of an increase in screening, which can detect cervical changes before they turn cancerous. Cervical cancer is usually diagnosed between the age of 35 and 44. The decline in the death rate has gone from about 4% each year from 1996 to 2003 to less than 1% from 2009 to 2018. The 5-year survival rate for all people with cervical cancer is 66%. Survival rates can depend on race, age and ethnicity, involving 71% for white women and 58% for black women. White women younger than 50 have a survival rate of 78%, while black women with age 50 and above have 46%. The 5-year survival rate for people having invasive cervical cancer is about 92% if diagnosed early, 58% survival rate if metastasis to lymph nodes, and 17% if metastasis to distant body parts.

Statistics of Cervical Cancer

Based on the statistics on cervical cancer, the incidence rates of cervical cancer decreased by more than 50% from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s because of an increase in screening, which can detect cervical changes before they turn cancerous ^​1​. Lowering incidence rates in young women may be due to the use of the HPV vaccine.

The death rate has lowered by about 50% since the mid-1970s, as the increase in screening ensured earlier detection of cervical cancer. However, the decline in the death rate has gone from about 4% each year from 1996 to 2003 to less than 1% from 2009 to 2018.

Cervical cancer is usually diagnosed between the age of 35 and 44. The average age for the diagnosis is 50. Around 20% of cervical cancers are diagnosed after the age of 65. Typically, these cases happen in people who didn’t receive regular screening for cervical cancer before age 65. It is rare for younger people around 20 to develop cervical cancer.