Table 4.
Comparison of Five-year Relative Survival and Disease-Specific Survival
| Characteristics | Breast | Colorectum | Lung | Melanoma | Prostate | Pancreas | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS | CSS | RS | CSS | RS | CSS | RS | CSS | RS | CSS | RS | CSS | |
| Overall | 74.2 | 74.7 | 57.6 | 58.1 | 13.3 | 16.1 | 88.4 | 88.0 | 49.3 | 48.2 | 2.8 | 3.7 |
| Age (years) | ||||||||||||
| 18-49 | 75.6 | 76.4 | 57.5 | 59.4 | 13.8 | 16.8 | 91.6 | 92.0 | 43.5 | 45.1 | 5.5 | 6.9 |
| 50-74 | 74.1 | 74.9 | 57.4 | 58.7 | 13.8 | 16.9 | 86.5 | 85.3 | 52.8 | 52.8 | 2.6 | 3.5 |
| 75-90 | 70.8 | 70.9 | 58.0 | 56.9 | 10.9 | 13.2 | 78.4 | 79.7 | 40.4 | 38.7 | 2.0 | 2.9 |
| Sex | ||||||||||||
| Male | 68.7 | 73.0 | 55.6 | 56.2 | 11.3 | 14.1 | 85.0 | 84.6 | 49.3 | 48.2 | 2.6 | 3.4 |
| Female | 74.2 | 74.7 | 59.5 | 59.9 | 16.1 | 19.0 | 92.1 | 91.8 | - | - | 3.0 | 3.9 |
| Race | ||||||||||||
| White | 75.6 | 75.9 | 58.3 | 58.5 | 13.6 | 16.4 | 88.1 | 87.8 | 50.5 | 48.9 | 2.7 | 3.4 |
| Black | 60.3 | 62.1 | 48.1 | 49.7 | 10.2 | 13.0 | 67.0 | 70.8 | 41.3 | 41.4 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
| Other | 77.1 | 78.7 | 60.5 | 62.8 | 13.9 | 17.0 | 97.2 | 94.6 | 53.1 | 55.1 | 4.8 | 6.6 |
| AJCC 6th Tumor Stage | ||||||||||||
| I | - | - | 95.0 | 93.1 | - | - | 98.1 | 96.6 | - | - | 14.9 | 15.5 |
| IA | - | - | - | - | 58.6 | 64.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| IB | - | - | - | - | 42.3 | 45.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 68.6 | 70.2 | - | - | 5.6 | 6.1 |
| IIA | 89.8 | 89.1 | 83.0 | 81.8 | 33.7 | 38.0 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| IIB | 76.2 | 76.7 | 68.3 | 68.5 | 22.1 | 26.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| III | - | - | - | - | - | - | 46.9 | 47.7 | - | - | 1.7 | 2.4 |
| IIIA | 63.1 | 63.9 | 83.5 | 81.2 | 11.3 | 13.6 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| IIIB | 36.5 | 39.2 | 59.9 | 59.3 | 4.7 | 6.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| IIIC | 40.0 | 40.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| IV | 17.0 | 19.2 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 10.9 | 15.8 | 49.3 | 48.2 | 0.6 | 1.3 |
| Multiple primaries | ||||||||||||
| First and only | 74.2 | 74.7 | 57.6 | 58.1 | 13.3 | 16.1 | 88.4 | 88.0 | 49.3 | 48.2 | 2.8 | 3.7 |
| With multiple primaries (excluded first and only) |
78.4 | 81.5 | 68.8 | 72.2 | 32.3 | 39.2 | 90.0 | 91.3 | 59.7 | 69.4 | 7.4 | 11.6 |
Abbreviations: AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; CSS, disease-specific survival; RS, relative survival.