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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2012 Nov 12;119(2):388–394. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27690

Table 2.

Five-year relative survival rates* for surgically treated clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients aged 50–74 by race, tumor stage, and tumor size at diagnosis, SEER-12, 1992–2007, followed through 2008

White Black


Clinical
State
Tumour
Size (cm)
No. of
Patients
Survival
Rates %
(95% CI) No. of
Patients
Survival
Rates %
(95% CI) White/Black
Rate Ratio
(95% CI)
Localized ≤ 4.0 5,392 96.5 (95.3, 97.4) 645 90.5 (85.9, 93.6) 1.07 (1.02, 1.11)
4.1–7.0 3,874 91.5 (90.0, 92.8) 378 85.1 (78.9, 89.7) 1.07 (1.01, 1.15)
>7.0 2,133 85.9 (83.8, 87.8) 241 82.4 (74.0, 88.3) 1.04 (0.95, 1.14)
Unknown 280 91.7 (85.6, 95.3) 44 82.9 (62.8, 92.7) 1.11 (0.93, 1.32)
Regional ≤ 4.0 480 79.6 (74.3, 83.9) 41 92.2 (71.8, 98.0) 0.86 (0.76, 0.98)
4.1ℓ7.0 1,170 77.7 (74.4, 80.6) 75 60.0 (45.4, 71.9) 1.30 (1.03, 1.62)
>7.0 2,035 60.9 (58.3, 63.4) 139 57.5 (46.5, 67.0) 1.06 (0.88, 1.27)
Unknown 102 59.6 (48.1, 69.3) 12
Distant ≤ 4.0 112 27.8 (18.5, 37.8) 11
4.1–7.0 369 26.7 (21.6, 32.0) 30 14.4 (3.9, 31.4) 1.85 (0.67, 5.13)
>7.0 982 16.6 (14.0, 19.4) 60 14.2 (6.0, 25.9) 1.17 (0.56, 2.43)
Unknown 68 27.9 (17.2, 39.5) 6
*

Survival rates were estimated only for categories with 25 or more patients;

No category under Unknown clinical stage had 25 or more patients except for whites with unknown size (N=50, Survival rates 62.9% (95% CI: 45.5% – 76.1%)