Table 1.
Number of cancer patients aged 65 years and older, with Medicare Fee-for-Service Part A and Part B, SEER-Medicare 2007-2013a
| Cancer site | Phase of care |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Initial | Continuing | End-of-life |
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| Cancer | Other cause | |||
| Bladder | 52 490 | 74 913 | 15 180 | 19 633 |
| Brain | 2882 | 2490 | 7845 | 1705 |
| Breast | 126 034 | 250 192 | 22 527 | 35 908 |
| Cervix uteri | 2238 | 4224 | 1618 | 743 |
| Colorectal | 81 226 | 137 618 | 42 023 | 34 596 |
| Esophagus | 5275 | 5125 | 8449 | 1689 |
| Hodgkin lymphoma | 1450 | 2529 | 854 | 563 |
| Kidney | 26 754 | 40 003 | 10 817 | 8160 |
| Leukemia | 18 366 | 24 824 | 15 128 | 7389 |
| AML | 2226 | 1804 | 7416 | 1041 |
| CLL | 11 763 | 17 513 | 3805 | 4344 |
| CML | 2598 | 3181 | 1519 | 1225 |
| Liver | 5644 | 4968 | 9280 | 2295 |
| Lung | 73 836 | 70 089 | 124 277 | 24 747 |
| NSCLC | 68 128 | 66 400 | 106 775 | 23 007 |
| SCLC | 5708 | 3689 | 17 502 | 1740 |
| Melanoma | 64 428 | 97 579 | 7212 | 15 635 |
| Myeloma | 11 734 | 13 944 | 9650 | 3733 |
| Non-Hodgkin lymphoma | 34 448 | 52 908 | 18 048 | 11 367 |
| Oral cavity or pharynx | 15 858 | 23 432 | 8261 | 5277 |
| Ovary | 8088 | 11 807 | 10 241 | 1492 |
| Pancreas | 8804 | 5321 | 29 571 | 2458 |
| Prostate | 158 840 | 335 539 | 23 403 | 48 559 |
| Stomach | 9411 | 10 623 | 11 809 | 3333 |
| Thyroid | 10 684 | 19 255 | 1688 | 1714 |
| Uterus | 22 098 | 42 161 | 7561 | 5804 |
| All sites combined | 808 148 | 1 316 976 | 436 986 | 270 816 |
a
Includes patients diagnosed with in-situ and invasive cancers. AML = acute myeloid leukemia; CLL = chronic lymphocytic leukemia; CML = chronic myeloid leukemia; NSCLC = non-small cell lung cancer; SCLC = small cell lung cancer; SEER = Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program. The reference source for this table is Mariotto et al., 2020 (4).