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Table 3.21

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

All Races, Males, 1975-2017

Ages 15-19

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 75.5 63.7 72.0 75.5 81.7 84.0
Hodgkin Lymphoma 91.8 86.0 90.1 93.8 96.6 94.1
Testis 90.7 79.2 92.0 92.5 93.9 94.0
Brain and Other Nervous System 71.8 59.7 70.5 74.5 75.0 79.8
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 73.4 49.6 67.2 71.7 82.3 87.5
Bones and Joints 59.4 42.6 59.9 60.5 67.9 66.3

Ages 20-24

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 78.1 69.5 73.2 79.3 82.8 86.0
Testis 93.2 84.5 92.0 95.7 95.9 97.2
Hodgkin Lymphoma 89.9 83.2 87.9 90.3 94.7 96.9
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 68.5 56.7 52.8 67.0 80.4 79.8
Melanoma of the Skin 87.5 76.1 85.3 91.9 91.4 96.2
Brain and Other Nervous System 67.0 54.7 63.0 72.6 72.6 74.4

Ages 25-29

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 75.3 71.5 63.4 75.7 83.2 85.8
Testis 95.4 89.1 94.6 97.3 97.1 97.4
Melanoma of the Skin 89.2 82.5 87.7 90.4 93.0 93.8
Hodgkin Lymphoma 89.2 84.5 85.7 90.0 93.3 96.2
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 62.3 59.0 41.7 57.7 79.0 83.1
Kaposi sarcoma 18.0 29.7 7.5 20.2 56.7 63.1

Ages 30-34

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 70.1 68.2 54.9 68.1 81.7 84.8
Testis 95.9 92.0 95.7 95.5 97.4 97.3
Melanoma of the Skin 89.1 79.3 87.0 91.2 93.7 94.4
Kaposi sarcoma 20.0 24.7 7.6 29.6 64.4 69.8
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 57.7 69.2 36.5 48.6 78.6 84.3
Hodgkin Lymphoma 88.0 79.7 83.9 88.3 93.5 95.1

Ages 35-39

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 66.2 59.7 50.9 65.4 78.1 81.1
Melanoma of the Skin 89.1 82.1 85.7 90.2 92.6 95.1
Testis 96.3 91.9 95.7 97.1 97.1 96.6
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma 59.3 62.2 41.7 51.6 74.7 83.0
Kaposi sarcoma 20.7 14.1 7.0 30.5 66.5 83.8
Colon and Rectum 63.1 54.1 54.5 62.5 69.5 68.4

Footnotes:

a SEER 9 areas (San Francisco, Connecticut, Detroit, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Seattle, Utah, Atlanta).

b Top 5 cancer sites selected based on 1975-2017 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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