Table 3.
Parameter | No. of Patients |
SMR* | 95% CI | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alive | Dead | |||
All patients | 17,662 | 2,821 | 8.4 | 8.0 to 8.7 |
Sex | ||||
Male | 9,636 | 1,686 | 6.7 | 6.4 to 7.0 |
Female | 8,026 | 1,135 | 13.2 | 12.5 to 14.0 |
Age at diagnosis, years | ||||
0-4 | 7,361 | 820 | 9.1 | 8.5 to 9.8 |
5-9 | 3,984 | 616 | 8.4 | 7.7 to 9.1 |
10-14 | 3,475 | 667 | 7.9 | 7.3 to 8.5 |
15-20 | 2,842 | 718 | 7.9 | 7.4 to 8.5 |
Years of diagnosis | ||||
1970-1973 | 2,267 | 664 | 8.2 | 7.6 to 8.9 |
1974-1977 | 3,562 | 735 | 8.0 | 7.4 to 8.6 |
1978-1981 | 4,693 | 671 | 7.9 | 7.3 to 8.5 |
1982-1986 | 7,140 | 751 | 11.1 | 10.4 to 12.0 |
Survival after diagnosis, years | ||||
5-9 | — | 1,336 | 20.7 | 19.6 to 21.8 |
10-14 | — | 611 | 7.2 | 6.6 to 7.7 |
15-19 | — | 431 | 4.7 | 4.2 to 5.1 |
20-24 | — | 268 | 4.3 | 3.8 to 4.9 |
25-29 | — | 144 | 5.0 | 4.2 to 5.9 |
30-34 | — | 31 | 6.9 | 4.7 to 9.8 |
Diagnosis | ||||
Leukemia | 5,482 | 913 | 10.0 | 9.4 to 10.7 |
Acute lymphoblastic | 5,030 | 730 | 9.5 | 8.8 to 10.2 |
Acute myeloid | 421 | 80 | 11.5 | 9.1 to 14.3 |
Other | 391 | 103 | 14.7 | 12.0 to 17.8 |
CNS tumors | 2,275 | 546 | 12.9 | 11.8 to 14.0 |
Astrocytomas | 1,489 | 318 | 11.3 | 10.1 to 12.6 |
Medulloblastoma, PNET | 424 | 128 | 17.7 | 14.8 to 21.1 |
Other CNS malignancy | 362 | 100 | 14.1 | 11.5 to 17.1 |
Hodgkin's disease | 2,207 | 510 | 7.8 | 7.1 to 8.5 |
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 1,381 | 143 | 4.4 | 3.7 to 5.2 |
Kidney tumors | 1,638 | 97 | 4.6 | 3.8 to 5.6 |
Neuroblastoma | 1,274 | 84 | 5.6 | 4.4 to 6.9 |
Soft tissue sarcoma | 1,594 | 244 | 7.1 | 6.2 to 8.1 |
Bone tumors | 1,451 | 284 | 7.8 | 7.0 to 8.8 |
Ewings sarcoma | 432 | 136 | 13.3 | 11.2 to 15.8 |
Osteosarcoma | 930 | 138 | 5.9 | 4.9 to 6.9 |
Other bone tumors | 89 | 10 | 4.1 | 2.0 to 7.5 |
NOTE. SMRs are age-, sex, and calendar year–standardized according to National Center for Health Statistics criteria.
Abbreviations: SMR, standardized mortality ratios; PNET, primitive neuroectodermal tumor.
All SMRs are statistically significant at P < .01.