You are here

CML statistics

The years for the data do not correlate precisely, but the UK and USA statistics in respect of newly diagnosed in a year and deaths in a year differ in proportion.

CML UK:

diagnosed in a year 742

deaths in a year 219

deaths in a year as a proportion of newly diagnosed 29.51%

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-statistics/s...

 

CML USA:

diagnosed in a year 8,430

deaths in a year 1,090

deaths in a year as a proportion of newly diagnosed 12.93%

https://www.cancer.net

 

 

 

What explains the relative difference in the statistics?

Population USA 325.7 million

Population of UK 66.02 million

 

 

 

 

Digging deeper into both of the provided links, it looks to me as if the survival statistics are out of date and (hopefully) underestimated.

I did wonder.

It would also seem that in the USA, a CML diagnosis per person is more than twice as twice likely as in the UK. Is this because the British NHS is poor in detecting CML or that somehow the British are 50% less prone to CML?

A CML death ought not to include CML patients who die of unrelated causes such as falling off a cliff. 

 

Those statistics are pretty accurate for deaths (though a bit low) for the US.  In previous years the deaths have been around 25% I believe.  You have to remember that many people do not get diagnosed in chronic phase and the many millions of uninsured or under insured do not have the fortune of finding out until it is too late (they will wait until they can't wait any longer to see the doctor).  Sad reality.  

Now for the UK, that rate does seem a bit high, is the problem technological, training or just the individual ignoring the symptoms until it is too late?