Table 1.
Sample Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Cancer Registry, 1999
| Characteristics | Ever Diagnosed (n = 120,072) |
Newly Diagnosed (n = 46,373) |
Died (n = 41,483) |
Never Diagnosed (n = 160,707) |
Noncancer Died (n = 6,639) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean | 75.6 | 75.6 | 77.7 | 70.5 | 80.5 |
| Male, % | 52.3 | 52.4 | 53.6 | 40.5 | 42.9 |
| Married, % | 56.1 | 54.4 | 50.3 | — | — |
| White, % | 85.4 | 85.0 | 84.4 | 80.2 | 82.5 |
| Cancer site, % | |||||
| Bladder | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.7 | ||
| Breast | 18.9 | 16.9 | 11.2 | ||
| Colorectal | 14.4 | 14.3 | 15.5 | ||
| Liver | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.8 | ||
| Lung | 8.3 | 11.5 | 17.3 | ||
| Lymphoma | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.6 | ||
| Melanoma | 5.0 | 4.6 | 3.2 | ||
| Other | 13.5 | 14.9 | 20.3 | ||
| Pancreas | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.0 | ||
| Prostate | 23.0 | 20.5 | 13.5 | ||
| Renal | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | ||
| Uterine | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.7 | ||
| Cancer stage, % | |||||
| Early | 40.4 | 37.0 | 28.5 | ||
| Intermediate | 50.5 | 55.4 | 59.9 | ||
| Late | 9.3 | 7.5 | 10.7 | ||