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Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2016 Jun 10;122(17):2723–2730. doi: 10.1002/cncr.30089

Table 2.

Five- and 10-year relative survival (%) and annual percentage change (APC) among children and AYAs with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) by race, age and era, SEER-9, 1975–2012

Age and era of diagnosis White Black

5-year (95% CI) 10-year (95% CI) 5-year (95% CI) 10-year (95% CI)
ALL, 0–14 years N = 5497 N = 517
  1975–1981 66.0 (62.6–69.1) 57.7 (54.2–61.0) 46.0 (33.2–57.9) 37.9 (25.8–49.8)
  1982–1988 77.7 (74.9–80.3) 72.2 (69.1–75.1) 56.9 (45.4–66.9) 53.3 (41.9–63.5)
  1989–1995 84.5 (82.1–86.6) 80.6 (78.0–82.9) 74.4 (64.4–81.9) 68.3 (58.0–76.6)
  1996–2002 89.6 (87.7–91.2) 86.8 (84.7–88.7) 83.5 (75.0–89.3) 78.1 (68.9–84.8)
  2003–2007 93.3 (91.3–94.9) 92.0 (82.9–96.3)
 APC (95% CI) 1.37 * (1.08–1.66) 2.15* (1.59–2.71) 3.01* (2.09–3.93) 3.91* (2.29–5.55)

ALL, 15–39 years N = 2003 N = 184
  1975–1981 25.2 (20.2–30.5) 22.7 (17.9–27.9) 19.2 (6.0–38.0) 14.6 (3.6–32.7)
  1982–1988 38.3 (33.3–43.4) 33.4 (28.5–38.3) 27.4 (11.2–46.6) 18.4 (5.7–36.7)
  1989–1995 42.8 (37.6–47.8) 38.5 (33.4–43.5) 33.6 (18.3–49.6) 33.6 (18.3–49.6)
  1996–2002 49.8 (44.7–54.7) 46.9 (41.7–51.8) 17.3 (7.0–31.4) 11.6 (3.7–24.5)
  2003–2007 57.0 (51.5–62.2) 54.9 (39.1–68.2)
 APC (95% CI) 3.13* (2.18–4.08) 3.74* (2.56–4.94) 1.25 (−0.68–3.22) −1.26 (−3.19–0.71)

AML, 0–14 years N = 729 N = 158
  1975–1981 22 (15.2–29.6) 18.7 (12.4–26.0) 33.4 (13.7–54.6) 33.4 (13.7–54.6)
  1982–1988 31.6 (22.9–40.5) 30.6 (22.1–39.6) 28.6 (11.7–48.2) 28.6 (11.7–48.2)
  1989–1995 45.8 (37.4–53.8) 44.4 (36.1–52.4) 48.2 (28.7–65.3) 44.5 (25.6–61.9)
  1996–2002 57.4 (49.2–64.8) 54.8 (46.6–62.3) 51.5 (34.0–66.5) 48.9 (31.6–64.1)
  2003–2007 71.2 (61.2–79.0) 53.6 (33.8–69.9)
 APC (95% CI) 4.58* (3.69–5.48) 5.47* (3.83–7.14) 0.31 (−0.86–1.49) 0.01 (−1.31–1.35)

AML, 15–39 years N = 2661 N = 410
  1975–1981 15.0 (12.0–18.3) 12.8 (10.0–16.0) 13.1 (5.7–23.5) 11.3 (4.6–21.4)
  1982–1988 29.3 (25.1–33.5) 25.4 (21.5–29.5) 13.2 (6.8–21.8) 11.9 (5.9–20.4)
  1989–1995 39.1 (34.6–43.5) 35.3 (31–39.7) 27.5 (17.0–39.0) 27.5 (17.0–39.0)
  1996–2002 49.9 (45.5–54.1) 46.7 (42.4–51) 40.4 (29.7–50.7) 38 (27.5–48.4)
  2003–2007 55.1 (49.7–60.2) 37.6 (25.5–49.6)
 APC (95% CI) 5.10* (4.15–6.06) 6.67* (5.13–8.22) 2.07* (0.41–3.75) 2.55* (0.12–5.04)

HL, 0–14 years N = 973 N = 146
  1975–1981 86.5 (81.2–90.4) 81.7 (75.8–86.3) 65.2 (40.4–81.8) 55.4 (31.5–74.0)
  1982–1988 88.0 (82.2–92.1) 84.9 (78.5–89.5) 88.9 (62.4–97.1) 88.9 (62.4–97.1)
  1989–1995 93.0 (87.8–96.0) 91.5 (85.9–94.9) ~ ~
  1996–2002 96.2 (92.0–98.2) 94.8 (90.1–97.3) 92.1 (71.5–98.0) 92.1 (71.5–98.0)
  2003–2007 98.2 (92.7–99.6) 96.0 (74.8–99.4)
 APC (95% CI) 0.55* (0.29–0.80) 0.81* (0.39–1.23) 0.78 (−0.08–1.66) 2.40* (1.16–3.66)

HL, 15–39 years N = 12521 N = 1467
  1975–1981 85.5 (83.9–87.0) 78.3 (76.4–80.1) 79.4 (71.4–85.4) 66.2 (57.3–73.8)
  1982–1988 87.3 (85.9–88.6) 81.9 (80.3–83.4) 81.5 (75.1–86.5) 77.3 (70.3–82.9)
  1989–1995 91.3 (90.1–92.4) 87.5 (86.0–88.8) 76.9 (71.5–81.4) 69.1 (63.2–74.2)
  1996–2002 93.5 (92.4–94.5) 91.1 (89.7–92.3) 84.0 (79.4–87.7) 80.5 (75.5–84.6)
  2003–2007 96.4 (95.3–97.3) 92.0 (87.6–94.9)
 APC (95% CI) 0.44* (0.37–0.51) 0.73* (0.61–0.86) 0.38* (0.13–0.63) 0.53 (−0.06–1.12)
*

, APC is significant at P< 0.05; -, Survival estimate not available due to insufficient number of patients

APC for 5-year survival was calculated based on data from 1975–2007; APC for 10-year survival was calculated based on data from 1975–2002.