Among people who received a first cancer diagnosis in 2013 or 2014, 45% were still alive in 2024. Ten years after being diagnosed with cancer, half of them (50%) consider that their health is excellent or very good, and about a third (33%) perceive their health as good. Moreover, 68% of them did not have any anxiety or depressive symptoms in the month before the survey despite the physical health problems they may have.
These are some of the results from the Québec Survey on Life 10 Years After a Cancer Diagnosis conducted in 2024 among 13,070 adults who had received a first cancer diagnosis about 10 years earlier.