Table 3.

SEER-reported cancer type, cancer stage, first course of therapy, subsequent cancer diagnosis and self-reported cancer treatment among 2717 cancer survivors in the Iowa Women’s Health Study, 2004

	Time since diagnosis
	< 2 years		2–4.99 years		5–9.99 years		10+ years
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Total N, % of total	412	15.2	525	19.3	779	28.7	1001	36.8
Type of cancer
Breast	148	12.0	237	19.2	365	29.6	483	39.2
Colorectal	72	15.2	87	18.5	136	28.9	176	37.4
Genitourinary	14	20.0	16	22.9	22	31.4	18	25.7
Gynecologic	43	12.7	60	17.7	93	27.3	144	42.3
Lung	15	22.7	9	13.6	25	37.9	17	27.8
Hematopoietic	23	31.1	24	32.4	15	20.3	12	16.2
Lymphoma	25	23.4	17	15.9	35	32.7	30	28.0
Other GI	10	32.3	4	12.9	8	25.8	9	29.0
Skin	25	18.0	30	21.6	41	29.5	43	30.9
Other	37	19.9	41	22.0	39	21.0	69	37.1
Stage
In situ	43	12.7	76	22.4	100	29.5	120	35.4
Local	220	13.3	312	18.9	487	29.4	635	38.4
Regional	88	17.5	85	16.9	139	27.6	191	40.0
Distant	46	28.2	44	27.0	39	23.9	34	20.9
Unknown	15	25.9	8	13.8	14	24.1	21	36.2
First course of therapy, % of total
Surgery	353	85.7	475	90.5	733	94.1	952	95.1
Chemotherapy	79	19.2	127	24.2	137	17.6	122	12.2
Radiation therapy	96	23.3	113	21.5	185	23.8	151	15.1
Subsequent cancer diagnosis, % of total	16	3.9	46	8.8	121	15.5	192	19.2
Reported current cancer treatment, % of total	108	26.2	107	20.4	55	7.1	52	5.2