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Table 32.21

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

All Races, Males, 1975-2010

Ages 15-19
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 73.3 62.4 71.0 75.1 76.5 82.2
Hodgkin Lymphoma 91.0 86.8 87.2 92.8 94.8 96.8
Testis 90.1 77.2 91.5 92.2 92.3 95.4
Brain and Other Nervous System 69.6 58.3 66.9 74.0 77.6 72.7
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 69.0 45.6 67.6 74.0 74.5 78.2
Bones and Joints 58.2 42.0 53.2 63.3 64.2 69.7
Ages 20-24
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 76.1 69.5 71.5 75.8 81.5 83.1
Testis 92.2 84.7 89.7 95.4 96.5 94.5
Hodgkin Lymphoma 88.4 83.5 85.8 88.1 94.6 93.3
Melanoma of the Skin 85.7 76.9 81.2 89.2 92.0 91.6
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 65.3 54.0 52.6 54.9 76.0 81.8
Brain and Other Nervous System 65.2 54.8 58.5 72.0 66.8 77.1
Ages 25-29
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 72.7 71.2 65.3 66.3 80.7 83.0
Testis 94.9 88.1 94.7 96.2 96.9 97.4
Melanoma of the Skin 88.3 82.5 85.6 90.4 92.4 91.2
Hodgkin Lymphoma 88.0 84.0 85.1 87.2 92.2 94.1
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 57.3 57.3 48.1 41.6 73.2 76.8
Kaposi sarcoma 14.1 - 9.0 10.4 43.0 52.1
Ages 30-34
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 66.8 68.6 57.2 56.8 77.3 81.8
Testis 95.5 92.0 95.0 96.0 96.0 97.0
Kaposi sarcoma 17.5 32.5 9.0 15.2 51.8 67.6
Melanoma of the Skin 87.8 79.2 85.0 90.0 91.4 94.1
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 53.5 69.8 44.0 34.3 66.8 78.8
Hodgkin Lymphoma 86.6 78.8 82.3 86.7 91.1 94.0
Ages 35-39
Site 1975-2010 1975-1982 1983-1989 1990-1996 1997-2003 2004-2010
All Malignant Cancers 62.9 59.6 52.2 54.8 72.5 78.0
Melanoma of the Skin 87.8 82.1 84.5 88.6 90.7 91.4
Testis 96.1 92.3 94.5 96.8 96.7 97.2
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 54.9 61.8 45.2 39.8 65.0 75.6
Kaposi sarcoma 18.3 - 6.9 14.7 54.8 69.5
Colon and Rectum 61.9 55.5 51.2 57.4 68.1 70.1

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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