SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: US SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics

This monograph examines cancer survival by patient and tumor characteristics for over 1.6 million adult cancers diagnosed during the period 1988-2001. Survival data are from NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and represent cancer in approximately one-fourth of the U.S. population. The patient and tumor characteristics shown vary by cancer site. The tumor characteristics may include subsite, size of tumor, extension of the tumor, lymph nodes positive, distant metastases, and histologic type. The patient characteristics are age, race, and sex.

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Monograph Chapters (PDF Files)

Title, Acknowledgments, and Dedication - 760 KB Table of Contents and Contributors - 361 KB Introduction - 486 KB Cancers of the Head and Neck - 1.7 MB Digestive Cancers Cancers of the Esophagus, Stomach, and Small Intestine - 792 KB Cancers of the Colon and Rectum - 823 KB Cancer of the Anus - 569 KB Cancers of the Liver and Biliary Tract - 845 KB Cancer of the Pancreas - 687 KB Cancer of the Larynx - 588 KB Cancer of the Lung - 789 KB Cancers of the Bone and Joint - 785 KB Sarcomas - 516 KB Melanoma - 774 KB Cancer of the Female Breast - 941 KB Female Gynecologic Cancers Cancer of the Cervix Uteri - 985 KB Cancer of the Corpus Uteri - 989 KB Cancer of the Ovary - 986 KB Cancer of the Placenta - 381 KB Cancer of the Vulva - 696 KB Cancer of the Vagina - 564 KB Cancer of the Fallopian Tube - 515 KB Cancer of the Testis - 605 KB Cancer of the Prostate - 1 MB Cancer of the Urinary Bladder - 1.2 MB Cancers of the Kidney and Renal Pelvis - 1 MB Cancer of the Brain and Other Central Nervous System - 1 MB Cancer of the Thyroid - 759 MB Hodgkin Lymphoma - 735 KB Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - 871 KB Leukemia - 761 KB Cancers of Rare Sites - 1 MB Race and Ethnicity - 1.1 MB Monograph Cover - 343 KB

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Suggested Citation

Ries LAG, Young JL, Keel GE, Eisner MP, Lin YD, Horner M-J (editors). SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: U.S. SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics. National Cancer Institute, SEER Program, NIH Pub. No. 07-6215, Bethesda, MD, 2007.

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