a: Probabilities of dying from cancer, dying from other causes and survival stratified by selected stage and comorbidity status among women with colorectal cancer diagnosed between 1999 and 2005a
b: Probabilities of dying from cancer, dying from other causes and survival stratified by selected stage and comorbidity status among men with colorectal cancer diagnosed between 1999 and 2005a
Abbreviations: SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.
aSource: National Cancer Institute SEER-Medicare linked database (Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Utah, and New Mexico, and the metropolitan areas of Los Angeles, Greater Bay, Detroit, Atlanta, and Seattle-Puget Sound).
bThe statistic could not be calculated.