What the survival rate for breast cancer has been in Scotland for each of the last three years.

Information is not held centrally in the format requested.Various methods are available for estimating survival and each has a different interpretation. Relative survival rates are essentially estimates of the net survival of a group of cancer patients in comparison with the overall survival of the general population and do not, as such, strictly indicate the actual percentage of patients alive at a given time after diagnosis.The table below shows age standardised relative survival rates (%) one year after diagnosis for women aged 15 to 99 diagnosed in each of 1993, 1994 and 1995, the most recent years for which these data are available. Trends in Cancer Survival in Scotland 1971 to 1995, published in 1999, provides full information on survival from all cancers and can be accessed at www.show.scot.nhs.uk/isd.Year of diagnosis | Age standardised relative survival (%) at 1 year
1993 | 90.8
1994 | 91.7
1995 | 91.9