Table 1.
Ranking of Percent Missing Cause of Death and Impact on Cause-Specific 5-Year Survival Estimates, 2011-2017 Diagnosis Years (Site Recode ICD-O-3/WHO 2008, All Sites Combined)
| NAACCR registry number | % DCO/ autopsy | % Missing COD | n | 5-year cause-specific survival | Absolute difference in survival estimates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Censored | Excluded | Cancer death | Censored-excluded | Censored-dead | Excluded-dead | ||||
| Excluded per >3% missing/unknown criterion (registry n = 16) | |||||||||
| 60 | 0.74 | - | 164,106 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 62 | 1.22 | - | 5,988 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 11 | 1.82 | 100.0 | 436,323 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 58.2 | 0.0 | 41.8 | 41.8 |
| 55 | 0.34 | 100.0 | 31,972 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 59 | 0.71 | 100.0 | 23,203 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 58 | 0.81 | 100.0 | 36,351 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 54 | 0.28 | 86.03 | 43,200 | 93.1 | 90.8 | 54.7 | 2.3 | 38.4 | 36.0 |
| 39 | 0.72 | 81.48 | 17,594 | 91.5 | 89.6 | 59.7 | 1.9 | 31.8 | 29.9 |
| 40 | 2.29 | 48.75 | 39,187 | 79.6 | 78.5 | 65.2 | 1.2 | 14.5 | 13.3 |
| 50 | 3.36 | 9.57 | 195,327 | 71.0 | 70.8 | 68.6 | 0.3 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| 44 | 0.18 | 8.00 | 98,293 | 70.3 | 70.1 | 68.8 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| 19 | 1.41 | 6.85 | 351,005 | 66.8 | 66.8 | 66.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 35 | 2.92 | 5.25 | 136,701 | 68.8 | 68.7 | 67.6 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 37 | 1.98 | 4.73 | 24,074 | 71.9 | 71.9 | 71.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| 23 | 1.87 | 4.49 | 170,860 | 64.4 | 64.2 | 63.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| 38 | 1.60 | 4.31 | 328,945 | 71.0 | 70.7 | 69.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Excluded per >2% missing/unknown criterion (registry n = 22) | |||||||||
| 16 | 0.83 | 2.56 | 29,752 | 66.8 | 66.8 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 271 | 1.02 | 2.50 | 211,430 | 70.8 | 70.7 | 70.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| 4 | 3.05 | 2.42 | 197,943 | 65.7 | 65.5 | 64.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| 272 | 1.01 | 2.30 | 257,052 | 67.1 | 67.0 | 66.4 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| 3 | 0.92 | 2.18 | 134,915 | 70.2 | 70.1 | 69.5 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| 7 | 1.03 | 2.16 | 24,374 | 69.9 | 69.9 | 69.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| 27 | 1.19 | 2.11 | 1,077,506 | 68.2 | 68.1 | 67.6 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| 41 | 2.30 | 1.94 | 147,373 | 70.8 | 70.7 | 70.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| 273 | 1.32 | 1.90 | 608,521 | 67.6 | 67.6 | 67.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| 21 | 2.58 | 1.77 | 702,655 | 67.2 | 67.1 | 66.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 12 | 0.95 | 1.72 | 173,361 | 62.7 | 62.7 | 62.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 13 | 1.53 | 1.71 | 18,573 | 67.3 | 67.2 | 66.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 1 | 2.75 | 1.57 | 105,279 | 64.1 | 64.0 | 63.6 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 42 | 2.67 | 1.53 | 59,198 | 64.5 | 64.4 | 64.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 56 | 0.19 | 1.51 | 117,475 | 67.8 | 67.7 | 67.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| 20 | 1.75 | 1.49 | 208,898 | 68.3 | 68.3 | 68.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 15 | 1.43 | 1.49 | 63,098 | 67.7 | 67.6 | 67.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| 5 | 1.32 | 1.44 | 37,221 | 67.3 | 67.2 | 67.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 26 | 1.07 | 1.43 | 720,505 | 69.7 | 69.7 | 69.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| 33 | 1.40 | 1.37 | 46,069 | 67.4 | 67.3 | 67.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| 311 | 0.57 | 1.09 | 165,574 | 70.4 | 70.3 | 70.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 18 | 1.19 | 1.05 | 161,946 | 64.8 | 64.7 | 64.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Excluded per >0.5% missing/unknown criterion (registry n = 9) | |||||||||
| 9 | 2.43 | 0.95 | 506,900 | 67.3 | 67.3 | 67.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 17 | 3.37 | 0.93 | 125,652 | 62.9 | 62.9 | 62.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 34 | 2.18 | 0.86 | 55,787 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 66.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 6 | 1.41 | 0.86 | 315,450 | 66.9 | 66.8 | 66.6 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 461 | 1.51 | 0.85 | 146,412 | 67.1 | 67.1 | 66.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 49 | 3.64 | 0.83 | 414,100 | 65.9 | 65.9 | 65.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 36 | 1.96 | 0.74 | 186,434 | 70.4 | 70.4 | 70.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 29 | 2.51 | 0.62 | 232,863 | 64.5 | 64.5 | 64.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 25 | 0.57 | 0.62 | 66,474 | 73.1 | 73.0 | 72.9 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Never excluded (registry n = 11) | |||||||||
| 24 | 1.72 | 0.50 | 52,815 | 70.5 | 70.5 | 70.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 31 | 1.61 | 0.50 | 231,496 | 69.7 | 69.7 | 69.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 47 | 2.44 | 0.45 | 212,591 | 64.0 | 64.0 | 63.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 8 | 2.09 | 0.42 | 51,483 | 67.3 | 67.3 | 67.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 28 | 1.97 | 0.41 | 38,100 | 66.5 | 66.4 | 66.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 10 | 0.99 | 0.33 | 104,837 | 62.4 | 62.3 | 62.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 2 | 1.67 | 0.28 | 114,955 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 32 | 0.89 | 0.23 | 77,156 | 62.2 | 62.2 | 62.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 53 | 1.53 | 0.22 | 496,534 | 67.5 | 67.5 | 67.5 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 45 | 2.39 | 0.21 | 172,339 | 65.1 | 65.1 | 65.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 30 | 1.61 | 0.02 | 783,858 | 67.5 | 67.5 | 67.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
COD, cause of death; DCO, death certificate only; ICD-O-3, International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition; NAACCR, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries; WHO, World Health Organization. NAACCR member registries listed above include state, metropolitan, provincial, and territorial registries.