Table 1.
Characteristics of the CRC patients from the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, 2001–2011 with follow-up to 2012 and data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), 2008–2012.
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| CRC size | Mean age at diagnosis (95% CI) | Mean survival months for people who died during 2001–2012 (95% CI) | Number of deaths during follow-up | CRC | Non-CRC | Mean age at survey for CRCa (95% CI) | Mean annual healthcare costs for CRCa (95% CI) | |||
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| Total | 886,380 | 68.0 (68.0–68.0) | 24.2 (24.1–24.2) | 402,501 | 587 | 1,296,500 | 176,467 | 307,548,722 | 70.6 (69.2–72.1) | 15,235 (13,578–16,892) |
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| Male | 455,055 | 66.7 (66.7–66.8) | 24.5 (24.4–24.6) | 208,743 | 273 | 594,465 | 84,596 | 150,759,522 | 70.0 (68.1–72.0) | 17,304 (15,326–19,282) |
| Female | 431,325 | 69.3 (69.3–69.4) | 23.8 (23.7–23.9) | 193,758 | 314 | 702,035 | 91,871 | 156,789,200 | 71.2 (69.9–72.4) | 13,483 (11,046–15,920) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 677,169 | 69.2 (69.2–69.3) | 24.6 (24.5–24.7) | 314,306 | 173 | 280,504 | 42,203 | 69,041,361 | 70.8 (69.2–72.4) | 17,079 (13,416–20,743) |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 98,792 | 64.3 (64.2–64.4) | 21.5 (21.3–21.8) | 46,736 | 44 | 46,082 | 16,916 | 18,850,692 | 63.0 (60.9–65.0) | 7026 (3767–10,284) |
| Hispanic | 67,062 | 63.3 (63.2–63.4) | 23.4 (23.1–23.7) | 26,772 | 55 | 68,478 | 51,597 | 50,641,478 | 64.0b | 9,551b |
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| 50–54 | 73,108 | 26.0 (25.7–26.3) | 20,485 | 42 | 105,901 | 11,542 | 22,784,168 | 10,705 (4605–16,804) | ||
| 55–59 | 83,742 | 25.3 (25.0–25.6) | 26,776 | 36 | 70,579 | 10,039 | 19,477,669 | 21,042b | ||
| 60–64 | 95,042 | 25.0 (24.8–25.3) | 33,554 | 75 | 151,497 | 8197 | 17,033,558 | 18,668 (7119–30,216) | ||
| 65–69 | 107,555 | 26.1 (25.8–26.3) | 41,314 | 79 | 134,669 | 6226 | 12,494,032 | 13,194 (12,460–13,928) | ||
| 70–74 | 114,711 | 26.1 (25.9–26.3) | 52,251 | 81 | 206,437 | 4400 | 9,213,053 | 13,162 (12,309–14,015) | ||
| 75–79 | 120,573 | 25.7 (25.5–25.9) | 64,553 | 77 | 170,221 | 3487 | 7,447,965 | 12,017 (11,526–12,058) | ||
| 80+ | 203,580 | 21.3 (21.1–21.5) | 68,520 | 157 | 397,223 | 4862 | 10,897,464 | 16,497 (13,583–19,411) | ||
CRC, colorectal cancer; CI: confidence interval; n, sample size; N, estimated population size.
a
Population estimates.
b
We did not calculate the 95% CIs of these point estimates because the sample size were too small.