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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Jan 24;117(14):3242–3251. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25854

Table 3.

Observed 3-year survival rate by race and SES, stratified by tumor stage

Observed 3-year survival rate (95% CI)

Race/ethnicity and SES Local Stage Regional Stage Distant Stage Unstaged/Missing
All-cause Cancer-specific All-cause Cancer-specific All-cause Cancer-specific All-cause Cancer-specific
Race/ethnicity
NH-White 85(84–86) 92(91–93) 49(47–52) 55(53–57) 13(11–15) 14(12–16) 36(33–39) 42(39–46)
NH-Black 82(79–86) 88(85–91) 42(35–49) 47(40–54) 16(11–20) 17(12–22) 37(27–47) 44(33–55)
NH-API 85(80–89) 91(87–95) 59(49–68) 64(54–74) 20(11–30) 23(13–33) 34(12–56) 45(18–72)
Hispanic 90(86–93) 94(91–97) 54(45–63) 62(52–71) 14(7–22) 15(8–23) 39(23–55) 43(26–60)
AI/AN 86(68–100) 94(82–100) 26(3–50) 28(3–53) 0 0 21(0–100) 21(0–100)
Health Insurance
Employer/Medicare/Private 85(83–86) 92(91–93) 50(47–53) 55(52–58) 14(12–16) 15(12–17) 38(32–43) 44(38–50)
Government 83(69–97) 84(71–98) 42(19–65) 51(25–76) 0 0 0 0
Medicaid/Not-insured 76(70–81) 85(80–90) 47(40–55) 51(43–59) 8(3–12) 9(4–14) 29(14–44) 33(16–50)
Unknown 85(84–87) 93(92–93) 49(46–52) 55(52–58) 14(12–16) 15(13–18) 36(32–40) 43(38–47)
Years of Education
<12 74(72–77) 85(83–87) 39(35–42) 44(40–47) 10(7–12) 11(8–13) 31(27–36) 38(32–43)
12 85(84–87) 92(91–93) 49(46–52) 55(52–58) 13(11–16) 14(11–16) 40(34–45) 46(40–52)
≥13 90(89–91) 95(95–96) 59(56–62) 65(61–68) 18(15–21) 20(16–23) 39(33–45) 46(40–53)
Tumor Sites
Breast 90(89–92) 96(95–97) 82(80–85) 88(86–90) 29(22–36) 32(24–40) 48(37–59) 63(51–76)
Colorectal 81(78–84) 91(88–93) 60(57–64) 67(63–70) 11(8–14) 12(9–15) 33(24–42) 40(30–50)
Prostate* 89(88–91) 96(95–96) - - 37(30–44) 41(34–48) 63(57–68) 76(70–81)
Lung and bronchus 43(38–48) 49(44–55) 15(13–17) 17(14–19) 3(2–4) 3(2–4) 10(7–13) 11(8–15)
Cervix 89(81–97) 93(87–100) 59(45–74) 63(51–78) 12(0–26) 12(0–26) 50(14–86) 56(19–94)
Ovarian 88(80–96) 94(88–100) 74(54–95) 74(49–77) 34(28–39) 37(30–43) 22(4–39) 24(6–43)
Melanoma of the skin 91(89–94) 96(94–98) 49(34–65) 56(39–73) 8(0–22) 9(0–23) 90(75–100) 93(81–100)
Urinary bladder 78(75–81) 89(86–92) 28(21–35) 37(28–46) 9(0–20) 10(0–22) 65(48–83) 74(56–91)
*

For prostate cancer, localized/regional stages were combined in SEER and were here reported in localized stage.

not reported for 3 cases with missing education.