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Table 32.20

SEERa 5-Year Relative Survival (Percent) for the Top 5 Cancer Sitesb by Age

All Races, Both Sexes, 1975-2010

Ages 15-19
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 77.6 68.9 76.2 78.9 80.2 84.3
Hodgkin Lymphoma 92.0 88.3 88.7 93.9 94.8 97.1
Brain and Other Nervous System 72.7 62.2 73.0 75.5 79.6 73.7
Thyroid 98.7 99.2 98.7 99.6 97.4 99.0
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 71.4 51.6 67.9 71.8 78.8 81.4
Testis 90.1 77.2 91.5 92.2 92.3 95.4
Ages 20-24
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 80.5 74.7 78.0 80.6 84.0 85.8
Hodgkin Lymphoma 90.3 85.0 89.6 89.9 94.3 94.6
Testis 92.2 84.7 89.7 95.4 96.5 94.5
Thyroid 99.6 99.6 99.6 99.5 99.2 99.9
Melanoma of the Skin 92.5 85.8 90.4 94.4 95.6 96.4
Brain and Other Nervous System 66.3 59.0 59.8 70.2 66.0 76.2
Ages 25-29
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 79.1 76.7 74.0 75.0 84.2 86.4
Melanoma of the Skin 93.1 88.1 91.0 94.3 95.6 96.0
Thyroid 99.7 99.7 99.4 99.8 99.7 99.5
Testis 94.9 88.1 94.7 96.2 96.9 97.4
Hodgkin Lymphoma 90.2 85.3 88.7 91.2 92.1 95.6
Breast 73.8 69.4 67.8 71.3 80.9 83.6
Ages 30-34
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 75.3 73.4 68.6 69.4 81.6 85.0
Breast 76.8 70.0 71.9 77.0 81.8 85.3
Melanoma of the Skin 92.3 86.5 90.3 92.9 94.9 96.4
Thyroid 99.7 99.5 99.4 99.7 99.8 99.7
Testis 95.5 92.0 95.0 96.0 96.0 97.0
Cervix Uteri 84.9 84.3 82.6 84.7 88.5 84.6
Ages 35-39
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 73.3 68.0 66.1 68.7 79.1 83.3
Breast 81.1 74.9 76.0 81.3 85.4 87.2
Melanoma of the Skin 92.1 87.4 89.9 92.1 94.2 95.3
Thyroid 99.4 99.0 99.1 99.3 99.2 99.8
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 62.5 65.8 52.8 48.2 70.6 81.1
Cervix Uteri 81.7 79.5 80.6 80.7 85.4 82.1

Footnotes:

a SEER 9 areas (San Francisco, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle, Utah, Atlanta).

b Top 5 cancer sites selected based on 1975-2010 SEER 9 Incidence rates for the age group.

- Statistic could not be calculated due to fewer than 25 cases during the time period.

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