Table 2.
Age at diagnosis and death among women (1976-2017) diagnosed with common cancersa
| Characteristics | Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breast | Lung and bronchus | Colon and rectum | Uterine corpus | Thyroid | |
| (n = 18 280) | (n = 3963) | (n = 3461) | (n = 1641) | (n = 1103) | |
| Age at diagnosis, median (IQR), y | 59.3 (51.2-67.8) | 69.2 (61.8-75.4) | 65.9 (57.7-73.6) | 62.8 (56.2-69.8) | 53.4 (46.1-61.7) |
| Age at diagnosis, No. (%) | |||||
| 25-29 y | 8 (0.0) | — | — | — | 5 (0.5) |
| 30-34 y | 82 (0.4) | 2 (0.1) | 5 (0.1) | 3 (0.2) | 23 (2.1) |
| 35-39 y | 410 (2.2) | 12 (0.3) | 33 (1.0) | 8 (0.5) | 81 (7.3) |
| 40-44 y | 1198 (6.6) | 52 (1.3) | 69 (2.0) | 31 (1.9) | 133 (12.1) |
| 45-49 y | 2224 (12.2) | 105 (2.6) | 181 (5.2) | 96 (5.9) | 167 (15.1) |
| 50-54 y | 2749 (15.0) | 238 (6.0) | 342 (9.9) | 214 (13.0) | 212 (19.2) |
| 55-59 y | 2860 (15.6) | 397 (10.0) | 460 (13.3) | 291 (17.7) | 166 (15.0) |
| 60-64 y | 2771 (15.2) | 557 (14.1) | 540 (15.6) | 327 (19.9) | 109 (9.9) |
| 65-69 y | 2405 (13.2) | 742 (18.7) | 547 (15.8) | 270 (16.5) | 93 (8.4) |
| 70-74 y | 1775 (9.7) | 798 (20.1) | 561 (16.2) | 215 (13.1) | 58 (5.3) |
| 75-79 y | 1198 (6.6) | 634 (16.0) | 414 (12.0) | 123 (7.5) | 40 (3.6) |
| ≥80 y | 600 (3.3) | 426 (10.7) | 309 (8.9) | 63 (3.8) | 16 (1.5) |
| Total deaths, No. (%) | 6431 (35.2) | 3534 (89.2) | 2101 (60.7) | 752 (45.8) | 170 (15.4) |
| Deaths from the primary cancer, No. (%) | 2777 (15.2) | 3158 (79.7) | 1277 (36.9) | 258 (15.7) | 32 (2.9) |
a
IQR = interquartile range.