Table 1.
Life Status of 5-Year Survivors of Childhood Cancer
| Status | No. of Patients |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible Cohort | Alive | Dead | |
| All patients | 26,643 | 24,567 | 2,076 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 13,754 | 12,540 | 1,214 |
| Female | 12,889 | 12,027 | 862 |
| Treatment era | |||
| 1974-1980 | 4,631 | 3,806 | 825 |
| 1981-1987 | 5,284 | 4,667 | 617 |
| 1988-1994 | 7,310 | 6,891 | 419 |
| 1995-2000 | 9,418 | 9,203 | 215 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic white | 18,365 | 16,881 | 1,484 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 2,331 | 2,106 | 225 |
| Hispanic | 3,818 | 3,596 | 222 |
| Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander | 1,673 | 1,549 | 124 |
| Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaskan native | 233 | 216 | 17 |
| Age at diagnosis, years | |||
| 0-4 | 7,633 | 7,196 | 437 |
| 5-9 | 4,227 | 3,869 | 358 |
| 10-14 | 4,565 | 4,194 | 371 |
| 15-19 | 8,064 | 7,341 | 723 |
| > 19 | 2,154 | 1,967 | 187 |
| Survival after diagnosis, years | |||
| 5-9 | — | — | 1,125 |
| 10-14 | — | — | 406 |
| 15-19 | — | — | 254 |
| 20-24 | — | — | 180 |
| 25-29 | — | — | 104 |
| 30-34 | — | — | 7 |
| Diagnosis | |||
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 4,970 | 4,570 | 400 |
| Acute myelogenous leukemia | 592 | 549 | 43 |
| Hodgkin's lymphoma | 3,124 | 2,767 | 357 |
| Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | 1,505 | 1,430 | 75 |
| Astrocytoma | 2,241 | 2,048 | 193 |
| Medulloblastoma | 743 | 643 | 100 |
| Ependymoma | 274 | 226 | 48 |
| Osteosarcoma | 643 | 567 | 76 |
| Ewing sarcoma | 392 | 333 | 59 |
| Rhabdomyosarcoma | 616 | 574 | 42 |
| Neuroblastoma | 1,024 | 973 | 51 |
| Hepatic tumor | 174 | 165 | 9 |
| Renal tumors | 1,242 | 1,203 | 39 |
| Retinoblastoma | 637 | 613 | 24 |
| Thyroid carcinoma | 1,401 | 1,369 | 32 |
| Other cancers | 7,065 | 6,537 | 528 |