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Figure 4.11

CSR Figure 4.11: 5-Year SEER Conditional Relative Survival


Figure 4.11

Cancer of the Female Breast

5-Year SEER Conditional Relative Survival and 95% Confidence Intervals

Probability of surviving the next 5 years given the cohort has already survived 0, 1, or 3 years

1998-2008 by stage at diagnosis

Stage at Diagnosis Survival Time
Since Diagnosis
Percent Surviving Next 5 years
Percent Confidence Interval
Low High
Local 0 year (at diagnosis) 98.4 98.3 98.6
1 year 97.5 97.3 97.7
3 year 97.2 96.9 97.4
Regional 0 year (at diagnosis) 83.4 83.2 83.7
1 year 82.2 81.9 82.5
3 year 84.3 83.9 84.7
Distant 0 year (at diagnosis) 23.3 22.6 24.0
1 year 29.9 28.9 31.0
3 year 37.6 35.8 39.5
Unstaged 0 year (at diagnosis) 56.1 54.8 57.4
1 year 64.2 62.7 65.7
3 year 71.4 69.5 73.1

Footnotes:

Source: SEER 18 areas (San Francisco, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle, Utah, Atlanta, San Jose-Monterey, Los Angeles, Alaska Native Registry, Rural Georgia, California excluding SF/SJM/LA, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and Georgia excluding AT/RG).

California excluding SF/SJM/LA, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and Georgia excluding AT/RG contribute cases for diagnosis years 2000-2008.

The remaining 13 SEER Areas contribute cases for the entire period 1998-2008.

Stage at diagnosis is classified using SEER Summary Stage 2000.

Percent surviving is not shown if based on less than 25 cases.

Confidence intervals are not shown if length of the confidence interval is greater than 5 times the standard error.

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