Survival rates for different types of cancer show big differences. This mainly happens because of a few key reasons:

• Type of Cancer: Some cancers are more aggressive than others. For example, pancreatic cancer has a very low five-year survival rate of about 10%. In contrast, melanoma, a type of skin cancer, can have a survival rate over 93%.

• Stage When Found: Finding the cancer early can really help improve chances of survival. When cancer is at a more advanced stage, it usually leads to a poorer outcome.

• Biomarkers: Sometimes, there aren’t good indicators to help predict how a person will respond to treatment, which makes planning harder.

To tackle these challenges, we need to focus on:

1. Better screening methods to catch cancer early.
2. New treatments that are specially designed according to the cancer’s details.
3. Creating big databases to help improve how we predict outcomes.

By working on these strategies, we can hope to see much better survival rates in the future.