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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2016 Jul;25(7):1029–1036. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0133

Table 2.

Percent of common co-morbidities in non-cancer controls and cancer survivors (by age and cancer site)*

Age Non-cancer
(n=100,000)
All sites(n=457,659) Bladder CRC Female
Breast
Leukemia Lung Oral Prostate
CHF % with
condition
(%
without)
% with
condition
(%
without)
% with
condition
% with
condition
% with
condition
% with
condition
% with
condition
% with
condition
% with
condition
66–69
years
4% (96%) 6% (94%) 6% 7% 3% 7% 10% 6% 4%
70–74
years
6% (94%) 8% (92%) 9% 10% 5% 9% 12% 7% 5%
75–79
years
8% (92%) 11% (89%) 11% 12% 7% 13% 15% 10% 7%
80–84
years
11% (89%) 15% (85%) 14% 16% 10% 17% 17% 13% 11%
85+
years
17% (83%) 20% (80%) 19% 22% 16% 23% 23% 19% 17%
COPD
66–69
years
9% (91%) 17% (83%) 17% 13% 11% 14% 40% 18% 8%
70–74
years
10% (90%) 18% (82%) 18% 15% 12% 15% 43% 20% 10%
75–79
years
12% (88%) 21% (79%) 20% 18% 13% 18% 43% 20% 11%
80–84
years
14% (86%) 21% (79%) 20% 18% 13% 19% 41% 19% 14%
85+
years
14% (86%) 19% (81%) 18% 17% 12% 18% 36% 18% 14%
Diabetes
66–69
years
20% (80%) 25% (75%) 27% 28% 21% 26% 24% 20% 21%
70–74
years
23% (77%) 27% (73%) 28% 30% 24% 26% 26% 23% 23%
75–79
years
24% (76%) 28% (72%) 29% 29% 25% 28% 26% 26% 24%
80–84
years
23% (77%) 27% (73%) 28% 28% 24% 25% 25% 24% 24%
85+
years
20% (80%) 23% (77%) 23% 23% 21% 21% 22% 22% 21%

CHF = Congestive Heart Failure COPD = Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease CRC=Colorectal Cancer

*

For cancer survivors, co-morbidities were identified prior to receiving a cancer diagnosis. See methods for details.