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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2008 Nov 11;144(1):86–94. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07421.x

Table III.

Age-adjusted plasmacytoma incidence rates and relative survival according to primary site, SEER-12, 1992−2004*

Incidence
5-year relative survival
Median (All ages)
Site No. (%) age (years) IR No. RS (95% CI)
Bone
    Axial skeleton (C41) 547 (83.1) 64 0.12 422 64.8 (58.7−70.9)
    Appendicular skeleton (C40) 111 (16.9) 69 0.03 79 59.4 (43.9−74.9)
Extramedullary
    All respiratory (C30−39) 133 (28.1) 60 0.03 109 83.0 (72.8−93.2)
    Mouth and pharynx (C00−14) 115 (24.3) 62 0.03 91 78.2 (66.2−90.2)
    Connective and soft tissues (C49) 67 (14.1) 65 0.02 49 56.7 (37.7−75.7)
    Eye, brain, CNS (C69−72) 41 (8.6) 59 0.01 32 48.1 (25.2−71.0)
    All digestive (C15−26) 35 (7.4) 64 0.01 25 60.3 (38.0−82.6)
    Skin (C44) 26 (5.5) 62 0.01 21 92.8 (77.5−100.0)
    Lymph nodes (C77) 25 (5.3) 58 0.01 17 98.0 (83.3−100.0)
    All other sites 32 (6.8) 61 0.01 21 73.2 (46.0−100.0)

Abbreviations: No., number of cases; IR, incidence rate; RS, 5-year relative survival (%); CI, confidence interval; CNS, central nervous system.

*

Incidence rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population and expressed per 100,000 person-years. Relative survival is based on cases diagnosed during 1992−2003 and followed through 2004. ICD-O-3 topography codes are specified adjacent to each site category.