Table 2.
Causes of death contributing to the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results cause-specific death classification variable for people diagnosed with more than one cancer (9.0% of overall cancer patients), 1992–2004*
| Primary cancer diagnosis | Causes contributing to cause-specific death variable, % of total causes of deaths (95% CI) |
Causes not contributing,† % of individuals (95% CI) | |||||
| AIDS and cancer,‡ | HIV alone,§ | Cancer of same site of first diagnosis | Cancer of same body system | Cancer of unknown site,║ | Site-specific disease, | Other causes | |
| Breast | N/A | N/A | 32.96 (32.88 to 33.04) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 5.10 (5.06 to 5.14) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 61.94 (61.85 to 62.03) |
| Prostate | N/A | N/A | 10.62 (10.56 to 10.68) | 0.02 (0.02 to 0.02) | 6.40 (6.36 to 6.44) | 0.02 (0.02 to 0.02) | 82.94 (82.87 to 83.01) |
| Colon and rectum | N/A | N/A | 39.73 (39.62 to 39.84) | 0.91 (0.89 to 0.93) | 4.48 (4.43 to 4.53) | 0.80 (0.78 to 0.82) | 54.07 (53.96 to 54.18) |
| Colon | N/A | N/A | 36.12 (35.99 to 36.25) | 3.57 (3.52 to 3.62) | 4.37 (4.32 to 4.42) | 0.92 (0.89 to 0.95) | 55.03 (54.90 to 55.16) |
| Rectum | N/A | N/A | 16.53 (16.34 to 16.72) | 26.90 (26.68 to 27.12) | 4.83 (4.72 to 4.94) | 0.45 (0.42 to 0.48) | 51.30 (51.05 to 51.55) |
| Lung and bronchus | N/A | N/A | 61.73 (61.63 to 61.83) | 0.75 (0.73 to 0.77) | 3.86 (3.82 to 3.90) | N/A | 33.66 (33.56 to 33.76) |
| Oral cavity and pharynx | 0.29 (0.26 to 0.32) | 0.10 (0.08 to 0.12) | 30.30 (30.07 to 30.53) | 2.13 (2.06 to 2.20) | 9.97 (9.82 to 10.12) | N/A | 57.21 (56.97 to 57.45) |
| Tongue | 0.41 (0.35 to 0.47) | 0.41 (0.35 to 0.47) | 16.53 (16.16 to 16.90) | 23.97 (23.54 to 24.40) | 9.09 (8.80 to 9.38) | N/A | 49.59 (49.09 to 50.09) |
| Lip | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 7.23 (6.82 to 7.64) | 6.02 (5.64 to 6.40) | N/A | 86.75 (86.21 to 87.29) |
| Hypopharynx | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | 4.67 (4.28 to 5.06) | 37.38 (36.50 to 38.26) | 7.48 (7.00 to 7.96) | N/A | 50.47 (49.56 to 51.38) |
| Esophagus | N/A | N/A | 46.72 (46.33 to 47.11) | 4.92 (4.75 to 5.09) | 4.51 (4.35 to 4.67) | 1.23 (1.14 to 1.32) | 42.62 (42.23 to 43.01) |
| Stomach | N/A | N/A | 36.10 (35.84 to 36.36) | 13.37 (13.18 to 13.56) | 5.35 (5.23 to 5.47) | 0.27 (0.24 to 0.30) | 44.92 (44.65 to 45.19) |
| Non–Hodgkin lymphoma | 0.86 (0.83 to 0.89) | 0.86 (0.83 to 0.89) | 38.47 (38.29 to 38.65) | 0.19 (0.17 to 0.21) | 5.17 (5.09 to 5.25) | N/A | 54.45 (54.27 to 54.63) |
| Kaposi sarcoma | 27.59 (27.13 to 28.05) | 32.76 (32.28 to 33.24) | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | N/A | 0.00 (0.00 to 0.00) | N/A | 39.66 (39.16 to 40.16) |
Thirteen registries from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program include Atlanta, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, Los Angeles, New Mexico, San Francisco–Oakland, San Jose–Monterey, Rural Georgia, Seattle, Utah, Alaska Native. CI = confidence interval; N/A = not available.
Causes not contributing to death represent censoring events.
For people with more than one cancer, AIDS and cancer is a contributing cause for selected sites.
HIV death is a contributing cause only for selected sites.
Multiple primary tumors of unknown sites (eg, codes C798, C80, C97, and D489).