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Table 26.21

Cancer of the Thyroid (Invasive)

United States Cancer Prevalence Estimates

Estimated United States Cancer Prevalence Counts a on January 1, 2009
By Race/Ethnicity, Sex and Years Since Diagnosis
Race/Ethnicity Sex Years Since Diagnosis Completeh
0 to <5 5 to <10 10 to <15 15 to <20 20 to <25 25 to <30 0 to <19e 0 to <34e >=34g
All Races b Both Sexes 150,696 99,270 68,603 49,444 37,734 28,415 359,113 456,180 40,721 496,901
Males 33,895 21,428 14,497 11,046 7,911 5,907 78,991 99,597 9,323 108,920
Females 116,801 77,842 54,106 38,398 29,823 22,508 280,122 356,583 31,398 387,981
White b Both Sexes 131,211 87,013 60,604 44,265 33,836 25,840 315,040 402,611 36,877 439,488
Males 30,240 19,306 13,177 10,107 7,225 5,348 71,088 89,957 7,849 97,806
Females 100,971 67,707 47,427 34,158 26,611 20,492 243,952 312,654 29,028 341,682
Black b Both Sexes 9,269 5,798 3,617 2,529 1,657 1,294 20,839 25,217 1,711 26,928
Males 1,672 1,019 565 531 302 243 3,710 4,428 192 4,620
Females 7,597 4,779 3,052 1,998 1,355 1,051 17,129 20,789 1,519 22,308
Asian/
Pacific
Islander c		 Both Sexes 6,845 4,582 3,026 + + + 16,148 + + +
Males 1,255 839 495 + + + 2,881 + + +
Females 5,590 3,743 2,531 + + + 13,267 + + +
Hispanic d Both Sexes 14,617 9,084 5,853 + + + 32,831 + + +
Males 2,507 1,597 953 + + + 5,599 + + +
Females 12,110 7,487 4,900 + + + 27,232 + + +
Estimated prevalence percent a on January 1, 2009, of the SEER 11 population diagnosed in the previous 19 years
By Age at Prevalence, Race/Ethnicity and Sex
Race/Ethnicity Sex Age Specific (Crude) Age-Adjustedf
All Ages 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+ All Ages
All Races c Both Sexes 0.0991% 0.0001% 0.0047% 0.0347% 0.1085% 0.1689% 0.1949% 0.1989% 0.1695% 0.1118% 0.0976%
Males 0.0430% - 0.0020% 0.0096% 0.0347% 0.0645% 0.0882% 0.1124% 0.1109% 0.0777% 0.0438%
Females 0.1544% - 0.0076% 0.0615% 0.1847% 0.2739% 0.2973% 0.2774% 0.2161% 0.1308% 0.1497%
White c Both Sexes 0.1069% 0.0001% 0.0052% 0.0382% 0.1205% 0.1840% 0.2054% 0.2043% 0.1719% 0.1099% 0.1039%
Males 0.0477% - 0.0022% 0.0106% 0.0382% 0.0713% 0.0964% 0.1191% 0.1177% 0.0766% 0.0473%
Females 0.1663% - 0.0084% 0.0683% 0.2091% 0.3018% 0.3136% 0.2838% 0.2161% 0.1285% 0.1610%
Black c Both Sexes 0.0462% - 0.0014% 0.0116% 0.0436% 0.0805% 0.1039% 0.1294% 0.1209% 0.0837% 0.0516%
Males 0.0170% - 0.0013% 0.0027% 0.0103% 0.0304% 0.0367% 0.0605% 0.0686% 0.0685% 0.0214%
Females 0.0729% - 0.0015% 0.0204% 0.0729% 0.1244% 0.1601% 0.1821% 0.1569% 0.0909% 0.0764%
Asian/
Pacific
Islander c		 Both Sexes 0.0987% - 0.0045% 0.0327% 0.0973% 0.1532% 0.1990% 0.2086% 0.1819% 0.1351% 0.0958%
Males 0.0368% - - 0.0079% 0.0343% 0.0505% 0.0737% 0.0994% 0.0915% 0.0834% 0.0379%
Females 0.1567% - 0.0083% 0.0577% 0.1570% 0.2473% 0.3081% 0.3013% 0.2505% 0.1671% 0.1470%
Hispanic d Both Sexes 0.0635% - 0.0043% 0.0280% 0.0789% 0.1291% 0.1769% 0.1823% 0.1633% 0.1110% 0.0825%
Males 0.0207% - 0.0018% 0.0054% 0.0209% 0.0359% 0.0663% 0.0847% 0.0967% 0.0582% 0.0308%
Females 0.1089% - 0.0069% 0.0543% 0.1473% 0.2314% 0.2843% 0.2667% 0.2133% 0.1419% 0.1345%

Footnotes:

a US 2009 cancer prevalence counts are based on 2009 cancer prevalence proportions from the SEER registries and 1/1/2009 US population estimates based on the average of 2008 and 2009 population estimates from the US Bureau of the Census. Prevalence was calculated using the First Malignant Primary Only for a person.

b Statistics based on SEER 9 Areas.

c Statistics based on SEER 11 Areas and Rural Georgia

d Statistics based on NHIA for Hispanic for SEER 11 Areas and Rural Georgia.

e Maximum limited-duration prevalence: 34 years for 1975-2009 SEER 9 data; 19 years for 1990-2009 SEER 11 data (used to calculate prevalence for Hispanics and Asian Pacific Islanders).

f Percentages are age-adjusted to the 2000 US Standard Population (19 age groups - Census P25-1130) by 5-year age groups.

g Cases diagnosed more than 34 years ago were estimated using the completeness index method (Capocaccia et. al. 1997, Merrill et. al. 2000).

h Complete prevalence is obtained by summing 0 to <34 and >=34.

i Age-specific completeness index was approximated using empirical data from historical Connecticut tumor registry.

- Statistic not shown. Statistic based on fewer than 5 cases estimated alive in SEER for the time interval.

+ Not available.

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