Table 3.

 Relative excess risk of death (and 95% confidence interval) three years after diagnosis, by registry, adjusted for sex, age, site, and stage/resection/nodes (regression model). EUROCARE and SEER data, colorectal cancer patients diagnosed 1990–91

Registry	No of cases	Model 1 (registry)	Model 2 (Model 1+sex, age, site)	Model 3 (Model 2+stage/resection/nodes*)
USA (SEER)	11 191	1	1	1
Varese (I)	445	1.50	1.52	1.09
		1.28–1.76	1.30–1.77	0.93–1.27
Modena (I)	306	1.05	1.07	0.77
		0.85–1.31	0.86–1.32	0.62–0.96
Calvados (F)	262	1.26	1.28	1.04
		1.00–1.59	1.02–1.61	0.84–1.29
Somme (F)	228	1.46	1.45	1.01
		1.17–1.83	1.16–1.81	0.81–1.25
Côte d’Or (F)	237	1.40	1.39	1.55
		1.12–1.76	1.11–1.74	1.23–1.94
Rotterdam (NL)	202	1.37	1.39	1.15
		1.07–1.76	1.09–1.77	0.89–1.47
Eindhoven (NL)	256	1.21	1.25	1.06
		0.97–1.52	1.00–1.56	0.85–1.33
Granada (E)	173	1.81	1.90	1.29
		1.43–2.30	1.50–2.40	1.02–1.64
Mersey (UK)	207	1.84	1.80	1.52
		1.48–2.29	1.45–2.23	1.23–1.88
Thames (UK)	176	2.21	2.22	1.59
		1.78–2.75	1.79–2.76	1.28–1.97

F, France; I, Italy; E, Spain; NL, The Netherlands; UK, United Kingdom.