TABLE 3. Percentage of patients with five-year relative survival after cancer diagnosis,* by race, sex, cancer site, and age group — National Program of Cancer Registries, 29 States, 2006–2012†.
| Cancer site/Age group | Survival (%) |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All races |
Whites |
Blacks |
|||||||
| Overall | Males | Females | Overall | Males | Females | Overall | Males | Females | |
|
All sites
|
67
|
67
|
67
|
67
|
67
|
68
|
62
|
64
|
59
|
| Prostate |
NA |
99 |
NA |
NA |
99 |
NA |
NA |
97 |
NA |
| Female breast |
NA |
NA |
90 |
NA |
NA |
91 |
NA |
NA |
80 |
| Lung and bronchus |
19 |
17 |
23 |
19 |
17 |
23 |
17 |
14 |
20 |
| Colon and rectum |
66 |
65 |
66 |
66 |
66 |
67 |
59 |
58 |
61 |
| Cervix uteri |
NA |
NA |
69 |
NA |
NA |
70 |
NA |
NA |
59 |
|
Age group (yrs)§
| |||||||||
| <45 |
83 |
78 |
85 |
84 |
80 |
87 |
72 |
67 |
75 |
| 45–54 |
74 |
69 |
78 |
75 |
70 |
80 |
65 |
63 |
66 |
| 55–64 |
71 |
70 |
71 |
71 |
70 |
72 |
64 |
67 |
61 |
| 65–74 |
66 |
69 |
63 |
67 |
69 |
64 |
62 |
67 |
54 |
| ≥75 | 53 | 56 | 50 | 53 | 55 | 51 | 46 | 52 | 42 |
Abbreviation: NA = not applicable.
* Based on cases of cancer diagnosed during 2006–2012 and follow-up of patients through 2012.
† Compiled from data from 29 cancer registries that met data quality criteria for survival analysis, covering approximately 66% of the U.S. population.
§ Age at cancer diagnosis.