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Table 3.22

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

All Races, Females, 1975-2017

Ages 15-19

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 84.1 76.0 82.2 84.4 87.1 90.3
Hodgkin Lymphoma 93.9 89.0 92.0 95.4 96.8 99.5
Thyroid 99.5 99.1 99.6 99.3 98.8 100.0
Brain and Other Nervous System 78.5 68.2 79.2 83.2 79.0 81.2
Melanoma of the Skin 95.7 87.9 95.8 95.8 99.6 98.4
Ovary 88.3 80.1 89.6 91.4 90.1 90.5

Ages 20-24

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 86.3 80.0 85.4 86.2 88.7 91.0
Thyroid 99.7 99.4 99.6 99.5 100.0 99.6
Melanoma of the Skin 96.7 91.4 96.9 96.9 98.4 98.8
Hodgkin Lymphoma 93.0 87.7 93.0 93.1 95.4 97.1
Brain and Other Nervous System 71.5 61.9 66.2 68.4 76.6 85.8
Ovary 84.2 81.2 84.3 84.9 85.4 86.6

Ages 25-29

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 85.8 80.7 82.3 85.4 89.3 90.9
Thyroid 99.7 99.5 99.8 99.9 99.5 99.6
Melanoma of the Skin 96.4 92.4 94.6 97.0 98.7 98.5
Breast 75.9 68.8 68.9 76.9 84.0 83.0
Cervix Uteri 87.2 89.0 86.5 87.3 86.8 83.8
Hodgkin Lymphoma 93.1 87.2 93.4 94.9 94.6 95.8

Ages 30-34

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 83.1 76.1 79.3 82.7 87.4 89.3
Breast 78.7 69.5 74.1 79.3 85.6 86.4
Thyroid 99.8 99.3 99.7 99.9 99.8 99.8
Melanoma of the Skin 95.9 91.8 94.4 96.3 97.9 98.1
Cervix Uteri 85.0 84.0 83.7 86.9 84.5 86.6
Colon and Rectum 67.0 62.8 60.0 65.7 68.6 74.8

Ages 35-39

Site 1975-2017 1975-1983 1984-1992 1993-2001 2002-2010 2011-2017
All Malignant Cancers 81.4 72.7 76.5 81.4 86.2 87.7
Breast 82.5 75.0 77.5 83.7 87.4 89.2
Thyroid 99.8 99.1 99.5 99.6 99.9 99.8
Melanoma of the Skin 96.1 92.8 94.6 96.5 97.1 98.4
Cervix Uteri 81.7 79.6 79.8 84.6 82.7 81.5
Colon and Rectum 66.2 57.1 59.6 64.6 72.8 69.3

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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