. 2010 Mar 16;10:100. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-100

Table 2.

Five-year absolute and relative survival (in %) of colorectal cancer patients adjusted to the World Standard Cancer Patient Population, Philippine resident population, and Filipino-Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites from US SEER, 1998-2002

Variable	(1) Philippine resident population		Between (1) and (2)		(2) Filipino-Americans		Between (2) and (3)		(3) Non-Hispanic Whites

	%	SE	Diff	p-value	%	SE	Diff	p-value	%	SE
Absolute survival
Over all survival¹	26.7	2.2	22.3	<0.001	49.0	1.3	1.3	0.74	50.3	0.2
Site¹
Colon	27.8	2.8	20.8	<0.001	48.6	1.7	1.6	0.73	50.2	0.2
Rectum	26.0	3.6	23.7	<0.001	49.7	2.2	0.2	0.84	49.9	0.4
Sex¹
Male	22.2	2.6	25.3	<0.001	47.5	1.7	0.4	0.86	47.9	0.3
Female	31.7	3.5	20.1	<0.001	51.8	2.2	0.9	0.92	52.6	0.3
Age group
<50	34.7	4.1	29.0	<0.001	63.7	3.8	2.5	0.72	66.2	0.7
50-59	37.7	4.5	29.3	<0.001	67.0	3.1	-1.7	0.44	65.3	0.5
60-69	27.8	4.0	32.8	<0.001	60.7	2.7	-1.5	0.75	59.2	0.4
70-79	34.0	5.0	17.0	<0.001	50.9	2.7	-0.9	0.43	50.0	0.3
80+	10.6	4.9	13.2	0.06	23.8	2.7	6.0	0.03	29.8	0.3

Relative survival
Over all survival¹	37.0	4.2	23.2	<0.001	60.3	1.9	2.2	0.85	62.4	0.3
Site¹
Colon	37.3	4.9	22.3	<0.001	59.6	2.4	3.0	0.82	62.6	0.3
Rectum	37.9	7.4	23.5	<0.001	61.4	3.3	-0.4	0.87	61.0	0.5
Sex¹
Male	30.2	5.0	29.2	<0.001	59.5	2.5	1.5	0.76	61.0	0.4
Female	42.9	6.2	18.7	<0.001	61.6	3.0	2.1	0.98	63.7	0.3
Age group
<50	35.7	4.3	29.0	<0.001	64.6	3.8	2.6	0.73	67.2	0.7
50-59	40.6	4.9	29.0	<0.001	69.6	3.2	-1.6	0.44	68.0	0.6
60-69	32.8	4.8	34.1	<0.001	66.9	3.0	-1.4	0.91	65.5	0.5
70-79	51.5	7.6	12.4	<0.01	63.9	3.4	-0.7	0.32	63.2	0.4
80+	26.6	12.3	19.6	0.42	46.1	5.2	8.9	0.07	55.0	0.6

Diff, difference; SE, standard error

¹also adjusted by age