Survival rates among patients with cancer in Alberta in 1974-78.
We calculated 5-year crude and relative survival rates, by age and sex, for patients in Alberta in whom cancer was diagnosed between 1974 and 1978. Cancers with low overall 5-year relative survival rates (less than 35%) included stomach cancer, cancer of the pancreas, lung cancer, brain cancer, multiple myeloma and myeloid leukemia. Cancers with high overall 5-year relative survival rates (more than 70%) included melanoma, breast cancer, cancer of the uterus, cancer of the bladder and Hodgkin's disease. Five-year relative survival rates were generally lower in the highest age group (75 years or more). A strong inverse relation between age and survival was noted for brain cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloid leukemia.
Mao
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Y
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Department of National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Ont.
Semenciw
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R
Morrison
H
H
Koch
M
M
Hill
G
G
Fair
M
M
Wigle
D
D
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000416:Alberta; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D012737:Sex Factors