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. 2016 Jun;42:186–198. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2016.03.011

Table 6.

Median age (Inter Quartile Range) Incidence rates (crude and age-standardized), sex-rate ratios, and 5-year overall survival (OS) and relative survival (RS) estimates (95% Confidence intervals) for polycythaemia vera, essential thrombocythaemia, and myleoproliferative neoplasms unclassified: Haematological Malignancy Research Network diagnoses Sept 2006 to Aug 2009, Sept 2011 to Aug 2013, followed through to September 2015.

Polycythaemia vera
Essential thrombocythaemia
Myleoproliferative (MPN) Unclassifiable
All patients Males Females All patients Males Females All patients Males Females
Total diagnoses 310 140 170 663 289 374 120 70 50
Median age (IQR) 70.5 (61.4 −78.6) 65.3 (58.8–76.4) 73.1 (65.4–80.9) 71.5 (60.5–80.8) 71.0 (60.3–80.0) 72.2 (60.6–81.8) 72.3 (64.2–80.1) 72.3 (63.0–80.1) 73.8 (65.6–81.7)
Crude rate per 100,000 1.74 (1.55–1.94) 1.62 (1.36–1.91) 1.85 (1.58–2.15) 3.71 (3.44–4.01) 3.34 (2.97–3.75) 4.06 (3.66–4.5) 0.67 (0.56–0.8) 0.81 (0.63–1.02) 0.54 (0.40–0.72)
Age-standardized rates per 100,000 European 2013 2.06 (1.95–2.16) 2.09 (1.93–2.25) 1.99 (1.84–2.13) 4.35 (4.20–4.50) 4.57 (4.33–4.82) 4.31(4.11–4.51) 0.79 (0.72–0.87) 1.12 (0.98–1.26) 0.58 (0.49–0.66)
European 1976 1.36 (1.29–1.44) 1.44 (1.33–1.56) 1.27 (1.17–1.37) 2.84 (2.74–2.94) 2.85 (2.70–3.00) 2.91 (2.76–3.05) 0.5 (0.45–0.56) 0.69 (0.59–0.79) 0.36 (0.30–0.42)
USA 1.44 (1.37–1.52) 1.48 (1.37–1.60) 1.38 (1.28–1.48) 3.13 (3.02–3.24) 3.24 (3.07–3.41) 3.14 (2.99–3.29) 0.55 (0.50–0.61) 0.78 (0.67–0.89) 0.40 (0.33–0.46)
World 0.93 (0.88–0.98) 1.00 (0.92–1.09) 0.85 (0.78–0.93) 1.97 (1.89–2.04) 1.92 (1.81–2.03) 2.04 (1.93–2.16) 0.35 (0.31–0.39) 0.48 (0.4–0.56) 0.25 (0.20–0.29)
Male/female age-standardized (European 2013) sex rate ratio 1.05 (0.95–1.17) 1.06 (0.99–1.14) 1.94 (1.58–2.37)
5-year overall survival% 77.68 (72.10–82.27) 76.71 (68.02–83.33) 78.49 (70.74–84.40) 71.19 (67.11–74.86) 68.41 (61.99–73.98) 73.34 (67.90–78.02) 57.98 (47.67–66.96) 61.25 (47.90–72.15) 54.26 (37.93–68.01)
5-year relative survival% 94.88 (87.46–97.96) 95.11 (77.92–99.0) 95.16 (81.37–98.81) 93.55 (87.95–96.60) 92.55 (81.40–97.13) 93.84 (85.86–97.38) 75.91 (61.64–85.47) 81.01 (59.83–91.73) 68.68 (46.32–83.24)