{"id": 1306096, "name": "Net survival rates of men with esophageal cancer after five years", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-09-08T13:25:58.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:19:16.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1995-2014", "datasetId": 8151, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "net_survival__gender_males__cancer_oesophageal", "catalogPath": "grapher/cancer/2026-09-02/gco_cancer_survival/gco_cancer_survival#net_survival__gender_males__cancer_oesophageal", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Percentage of patients still alive five years after the diagnosis, assuming cancer is the only cause of death.", "descriptionFromProducer": "Net survival (patients\u2019 survival as if cancer was the only cause of death) was calculated to estimate population-based cancer survival.\n\nAge-standardization was carried out using international cancer survival standard weights (Corazziari et al., 2004). The cohort approach was used for 1995\u20131999, 2000\u20132004, and 2005\u20132009, and the period approach was used for 2010\u20132014 (Brenner and Gefeller, 1996).", "type": "float", "patchConfigIdETL": "01a08132-6368-704e-b8a5-09c7104defd9", "dataChecksum": "2393395043235619589", "metadataChecksum": "-479010510951214099", "datasetName": "ICBP SURVMARK-2 \u2013 Cancer Survival Rates", "updatePeriodDays": 0, "datasetVersion": "2026-09-02", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Esophageal cancer among men", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "minor", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Net survival rates of men with esophageal cancer after five years", "topicTagsLinks": ["Cancer"]}, "descriptionKey": "- The percentage of patients still alive at a certain time after diagnosis, assuming cancer is the only cause of death.\n- Net survival estimates survival by removing the effect of other causes of death.\n- It represents the theoretical survival of cancer patients if they could only die from cancer-related causes.\n- This measure allows fair comparisons between groups with different probabilities of non-cancer death.\n- Net survival rates are age-standardized using the International Cancer Survival Standard (ICSS) weights.", "origins": [{"id": 21498, "title": "ICBP SURVMARK-2 \u2013 Cancer Survival Rates", "description": "ICBP SURVMARK-2 provides data on cancer survival, incidence, and mortality within the second phase of the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP).\n\nICBP is a unique and innovative global collaboration that brings together clinicians, policy-makers, researchers, and cancer data experts. It aims to measure international differences in cancer survival and, crucially, to identify factors that might be driving these differences.\n\nThe data presented is derived from 21 population-based cancer registries in seven countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom) and covers the period 1995\u20132014, with follow-up until December 31, 2015.", "producer": "Global Cancer Observatory", "citationFull": "Arnold M, Rutherford M, Lam F, Bray F, Ervik M, Soerjomataram I (2019). ICBP SURVMARK-2 online tool: International Cancer Survival Benchmarking. Lyon, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available from: https://gco.iarc.who.int/survival/survmark, accessed [02 September 2026].", "urlMain": "https://gco.iarc.who.int/survival/survmark/", "urlDownload": "https://gco.iarc.who.int/survival/survmark/data/V2.csv", "dateAccessed": "2026-09-02", "datePublished": "2019", "license": {"url": "https://gco.iarc.who.int/survival/survmark/about/", "name": "Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention"}}]}