Canada gets high ranking for cancer survival rates

I was digging around trying to find information re 5-year survival rates of nations with Universal Health Care versus USA. Here's an interesting piece from Canadian source published July 2008.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080716/cancer_statistics_080716/20080716/

"...report on worldwide cancer survival rates, Canada ranked near the top of the 31 countries studied with an estimate five-year survival rate of 82.5 per cent...U.S. has a five-year survival rate in all the cancers studied of 91.9 per cent, while Europe's is much lower at 57.1 per cent..."

"...The research was conducted by more than 100 scientists, led by Coleman of the Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Researchers compiled data on the five-year survival rates of patients who were diagnosed between 1990 and 1994 and were followed up with until the end of 1999. Breast, colon, rectum and prostate cancer patients were included in the study..."