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Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue which is the leading cause of death in India. More than one million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in the world every year. In India, more than 100,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year with high mortality rate. The major reason for low survival rates of breast cancer in India is that the lack awareness about cancer and its treatment, which causes late detection. AIM:- To estimate the 5 year survival rate of women diagnosed with breast cancer and various factors influencing the survival rate of the women's diagnosed with breast cancer and to find the strength of association of the various variables of breast cancer with survival rate. This will be helpful for early detection and treatment actions, improve treatment and care proposals in the particular areas of health and health care. MATERIAL AND METHOD: - This study was conducted to find out the survival rate of women's diagnosed with breast cancer 5 years back. For this study survival rate was calculated of total 100 samples from august 2012 to Jan 2011 by using retrospective record based study design. These samples were selected by using Non-Probability consecutive sampling technique. STATISTICAAL ANALYSIS:- Descriptive statistics, Chi Square Test was used to find the association and statistical significance between each variable. RESULTS:-Results were found that total 65% of women's had their survival for 5 years, and 35% were death before 5 year. The 5 year survival rate was found 90%, 85%, 57.89% & 0% for stage I, II, III, & IV respectively. Also factors like origination of Ca breast, Tumor size, no of lymph node, level of metastasis, stage of cancer and surgery undergone had great impact on survival rate( p=<0.0001). CONCLUSION: - Although survival rate was dependent on the stage of cancer, there is need to raise awareness about early diagnosis and treatment, and continue with various studies that deepen the factor that favor more to improve survival, since professionals can become aware of the importance of caring out health education actions and offer conditions of care appropriate to the needs that may arise during the disease. Key Words: Survival Rate, Breast Cancer