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Table 20.13
Cancer of the Oral Cavity and Pharynx For Selected Subsites (Invasive)
SEERa Relative Survival (Percent) By Year of Diagnosis
All Races, Males and Females
Cancer of the Tongue
| Survival Time |
Year of Diagnosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975- 1979 |
1980- 1984 |
1985- 1989 |
1990- 1994 |
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| 1-year | 74.2 | 73.3 | 76.8 | 79.5 | 79.3 | 79.1 | 81.6 | 79.9 | 80.5 | 84.4 | 80.8 | 81.0 | 84.4 | 86.8 | 84.7 | 84.3 | 86.0 | 86.7 | 87.4 | 86.6 | 88.0 | 87.8 | 87.2 | 87.6 | 86.9 |
| 2-year | 54.9 | 57.5 | 60.6 | 64.8 | 65.2 | 66.6 | 71.2 | 65.8 | 68.2 | 71.2 | 70.6 | 69.4 | 71.4 | 75.5 | 72.1 | 73.9 | 76.5 | 77.0 | 79.0 | 76.5 | 78.5 | 80.8 | 78.5 | 79.5 | |
| 3-year | 47.4 | 50.8 | 54.4 | 57.4 | 58.6 | 60.4 | 65.1 | 59.1 | 60.0 | 65.8 | 63.8 | 63.9 | 66.9 | 70.9 | 64.8 | 69.3 | 70.6 | 72.1 | 73.8 | 71.9 | 74.5 | 74.9 | 71.7 | ||
| 4-year | 43.5 | 47.4 | 49.9 | 53.6 | 56.4 | 57.3 | 62.1 | 55.5 | 57.9 | 63.1 | 61.0 | 61.7 | 64.2 | 66.5 | 61.4 | 66.9 | 68.9 | 69.7 | 71.1 | 69.3 | 71.9 | 73.3 | |||
| 5-year | 40.1 | 44.6 | 47.4 | 50.8 | 54.0 | 55.4 | 58.0 | 52.8 | 54.7 | 61.8 | 58.4 | 59.8 | 61.5 | 64.8 | 60.0 | 65.2 | 66.9 | 67.6 | 68.6 | 67.4 | 71.3 | ||||
| 6-year | 38.4 | 41.8 | 45.1 | 48.5 | 50.4 | 52.8 | 56.4 | 52.2 | 52.8 | 59.8 | 56.3 | 57.7 | 61.1 | 61.6 | 59.0 | 63.7 | 65.6 | 66.0 | 67.1 | 66.5 | |||||
| 7-year | 37.2 | 38.9 | 42.4 | 46.7 | 48.4 | 51.2 | 55.1 | 49.6 | 50.5 | 57.6 | 54.3 | 56.7 | 59.5 | 59.3 | 57.5 | 63.0 | 63.3 | 65.1 | 65.9 | ||||||
| 8-year | 35.7 | 37.4 | 40.4 | 44.3 | 46.5 | 49.8 | 53.9 | 48.0 | 50.4 | 55.5 | 50.6 | 53.5 | 59.0 | 56.9 | 55.9 | 60.2 | 61.7 | 63.1 | |||||||
| 9-year | 34.2 | 34.8 | 38.9 | 42.0 | 44.6 | 48.6 | 52.9 | 47.4 | 48.5 | 54.5 | 48.1 | 52.2 | 57.0 | 55.0 | 54.7 | 58.5 | 59.9 | ||||||||
| 10-year | 32.5 | 33.3 | 37.5 | 40.0 | 43.3 | 46.6 | 52.3 | 45.9 | 47.7 | 52.9 | 46.1 | 49.9 | 56.1 | 53.8 | 52.0 | 57.0 | |||||||||
Cancer of the Lip
| Survival Time |
Year of Diagnosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975- 1979 |
1980- 1984 |
1985- 1989 |
1990- 1994 |
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| 1-year | 99.1 | 97.6 | 99.2 | 100.0 | 99.9 | 98.1 | 100.0 | 99.2 | 97.3 | 98.1 | 95.1 | 99.3 | 99.3 | 99.6 | 98.2 | 96.9 | 96.1 | 99.8 | 93.7 | 100.0 | 98.3 | 95.6 | 99.8 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| 2-year | 97.4 | 95.8 | 98.0 | 98.8 | 99.4 | 94.1 | 97.0 | 97.9 | 95.1 | 96.2 | 93.7 | 99.3 | 99.2 | 99.6 | 95.3 | 94.5 | 95.5 | 99.0 | 92.2 | 99.6 | 98.3 | 91.7 | 98.4 | 99.5 | |
| 3-year | 96.9 | 93.4 | 97.2 | 98.4 | 98.7 | 92.8 | 95.8 | 95.1 | 93.7 | 95.1 | 93.7 | 97.1 | 98.2 | 98.7 | 95.1 | 93.2 | 95.5 | 98.2 | 91.7 | 94.8 | 98.3 | 89.9 | 95.4 | ||
| 4-year | 95.7 | 92.0 | 96.9 | 97.3 | 96.3 | 91.3 | 93.4 | 93.2 | 92.1 | 92.7 | 90.3 | 97.1 | 98.2 | 95.7 | 95.1 | 90.1 | 94.6 | 94.1 | 90.5 | 94.8 | 98.3 | 88.8 | |||
| 5-year | 94.1 | 90.0 | 95.8 | 96.0 | 95.0 | 88.6 | 91.2 | 91.0 | 90.5 | 90.3 | 90.3 | 93.9 | 98.2 | 94.1 | 95.1 | 88.6 | 94.6 | 94.1 | 87.7 | 93.6 | 98.3 | ||||
| 6-year | 92.3 | 87.6 | 95.0 | 94.6 | 95.0 | 87.4 | 89.4 | 89.6 | 89.3 | 90.3 | 87.6 | 93.6 | 98.2 | 94.1 | 95.1 | 85.9 | 94.6 | 92.0 | 86.4 | 92.2 | |||||
| 7-year | 91.2 | 86.5 | 93.4 | 93.3 | 95.0 | 86.6 | 88.2 | 89.6 | 88.8 | 90.2 | 84.5 | 93.6 | 97.3 | 93.4 | 94.9 | 85.9 | 94.6 | 89.9 | 83.4 | ||||||
| 8-year | 89.8 | 86.0 | 91.8 | 92.1 | 90.4 | 83.2 | 88.2 | 87.4 | 88.5 | 90.2 | 82.2 | 93.4 | 97.3 | 93.2 | 91.5 | 85.9 | 94.6 | 87.5 | |||||||
| 9-year | 87.5 | 85.1 | 91.3 | 89.8 | 86.0 | 82.5 | 88.0 | 86.8 | 88.1 | 88.6 | 78.7 | 90.8 | 95.8 | 93.2 | 88.8 | 85.9 | 91.7 | ||||||||
| 10-year | 85.8 | 83.5 | 91.3 | 88.0 | 81.9 | 82.5 | 85.5 | 86.8 | 88.1 | 88.4 | 75.9 | 87.8 | 95.4 | 92.1 | 88.8 | 85.9 | |||||||||
Cancer of the Oropharynx and Tonsil
| Survival Time |
Year of Diagnosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975- 1979 |
1980- 1984 |
1985- 1989 |
1990- 1994 |
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| 1-year | 70.5 | 70.7 | 72.9 | 74.4 | 80.3 | 79.7 | 81.1 | 81.3 | 86.9 | 82.2 | 83.7 | 85.2 | 82.6 | 83.9 | 84.1 | 85.2 | 86.0 | 86.1 | 88.6 | 90.3 | 90.7 | 86.5 | 87.1 | 89.8 | 87.5 |
| 2-year | 53.3 | 52.8 | 55.9 | 61.4 | 69.7 | 66.3 | 66.8 | 67.1 | 74.8 | 67.3 | 72.0 | 76.0 | 75.3 | 74.9 | 74.3 | 75.1 | 77.4 | 78.6 | 81.2 | 83.4 | 83.8 | 80.2 | 81.8 | 83.2 | |
| 3-year | 44.5 | 44.4 | 45.7 | 53.7 | 62.7 | 60.6 | 61.8 | 59.8 | 66.9 | 62.3 | 66.7 | 71.4 | 71.3 | 71.2 | 70.6 | 70.4 | 72.2 | 73.3 | 76.5 | 79.9 | 79.8 | 75.5 | 77.4 | ||
| 4-year | 38.9 | 39.3 | 41.5 | 49.1 | 58.4 | 54.1 | 56.3 | 54.9 | 63.0 | 57.4 | 60.6 | 67.3 | 68.0 | 67.2 | 66.9 | 68.4 | 70.3 | 70.0 | 73.9 | 76.6 | 77.3 | 73.4 | |||
| 5-year | 35.4 | 35.3 | 37.8 | 44.9 | 53.9 | 52.6 | 51.3 | 52.9 | 59.7 | 53.6 | 58.7 | 64.4 | 65.1 | 64.6 | 65.4 | 65.6 | 67.9 | 67.5 | 72.6 | 74.8 | 75.3 | ||||
| 6-year | 32.1 | 31.8 | 34.6 | 42.6 | 50.1 | 47.7 | 48.3 | 51.0 | 57.5 | 52.2 | 54.7 | 63.5 | 63.5 | 62.5 | 64.1 | 65.0 | 66.0 | 65.8 | 71.2 | 72.3 | |||||
| 7-year | 30.2 | 29.6 | 31.9 | 41.3 | 46.6 | 43.7 | 47.3 | 49.7 | 55.7 | 48.8 | 52.8 | 62.6 | 62.6 | 61.7 | 61.5 | 62.9 | 63.5 | 62.4 | 70.1 | ||||||
| 8-year | 26.1 | 28.0 | 30.1 | 39.0 | 45.4 | 42.3 | 46.1 | 48.9 | 52.1 | 46.6 | 52.8 | 59.5 | 60.8 | 60.9 | 59.3 | 60.2 | 60.9 | 61.7 | |||||||
| 9-year | 23.7 | 25.8 | 28.3 | 36.6 | 44.1 | 41.3 | 44.3 | 48.6 | 51.9 | 45.0 | 49.6 | 58.9 | 60.4 | 57.7 | 57.8 | 58.8 | 58.8 | ||||||||
| 10-year | 22.4 | 23.2 | 26.1 | 35.4 | 42.9 | 40.1 | 43.6 | 46.4 | 49.8 | 43.1 | 48.5 | 57.0 | 58.0 | 56.0 | 57.7 | 58.8 | |||||||||
Footnotes:
a Based on the SEER 9 areas (San Francisco, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle, Utah, and Atlanta).
Expected survival rates are derived from the U.S. Annual Life Tables.
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