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Table 1.11

Median Age of Cancer Patients at Diagnosisa, 2014-2018
By Primary Cancer Site, Race and Sex

Site All Races Whites Blacks
Both Sexes Males Females Both Sexes Males Females Both Sexes Males Females
All Sites 66.0 67.0 65.0 67.0 68.0 66.0 64.0 64.0 63.0
Oral Cavity & Pharynx: 64.0 63.0 65.0 64.0 64.0 66.0 61.0 61.0 60.0
Lip 69.0 68.0 70.0 69.0 69.0 71.0 57.0 59.0 54.0
Tongue 64.0 63.0 64.0 64.0 63.0 65.0 61.0 62.0 61.0
Salivary gland 66.0 68.0 63.0 68.0 70.0 65.0 58.0 58.0 58.0
Floor of mouth 64.0 63.0 65.0 64.0 64.0 66.0 62.0 62.0 61.0
Gum & other oral cavity 68.0 66.0 71.0 69.0 67.0 72.0 62.0 62.0 64.0
Nasopharynx 58.0 58.0 58.0 61.0 60.0 61.0 56.0 56.0 56.0
Tonsil 60.0 60.0 62.0 61.0 60.0 62.0 60.0 60.0 60.0
Oropharynx 63.0 63.0 64.0 63.0 63.0 64.0 62.0 62.0 61.5
Hypopharynx 65.0 66.0 64.0 66.0 66.0 66.0 63.0 63.0 61.0
Other oral cavity & pharynx 65.0 65.0 67.0 66.0 65.0 69.0 63.0 64.0 60.0
Digestive System: 67.0 66.0 69.0 68.0 67.0 70.0 64.0 64.0 65.0
Esophagus 68.0 68.0 71.0 69.0 68.0 72.0 65.0 65.0 66.0
Stomach 68.0 68.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 67.0 66.0 67.0
Small intestine 66.0 66.0 66.0 67.0 66.0 67.0 64.0 64.0 64.0
Colon & Rectum: 67.0 65.0 68.0 68.0 66.0 69.0 63.0 63.0 64.0
Colon 69.0 67.0 70.0 70.0 68.0 71.0 65.0 64.0 66.0
Rectum 62.0 62.0 63.0 63.0 63.0 63.0 60.0 60.0 60.0
Anus, anal canal & anorectum 63.0 61.0 64.0 63.0 63.0 64.0 57.0 54.0 61.0
Liver & intrahepatic bile duct 65.0 65.0 68.0 66.0 65.0 69.0 64.0 63.0 65.0
Gallbladder 71.0 70.0 71.0 72.0 71.0 72.0 67.0 68.0 67.0
Other biliary 71.0 70.0 72.0 72.0 71.0 73.0 67.0 67.0 68.0
Pancreas 70.0 69.0 72.0 71.0 69.0 72.0 67.0 66.0 69.0
Retroperitoneum 62.0 62.0 62.0 64.0 63.0 64.0 59.0 59.5 59.0
Peritoneum, omentum & mesentery 68.0 67.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 69.0 66.0 62.0 67.0
Other digestive system 71.0 70.0 72.0 72.0 71.0 73.0 66.0 66.0 67.0
Respiratory System: 70.0 70.0 71.0 71.0 70.0 71.0 67.0 67.0 68.0
Nose, nasal cavity & middle ear 65.0 64.0 66.0 66.0 65.0 67.0 59.0 58.0 61.0
Larynx 66.0 66.0 64.0 66.0 66.0 65.0 64.0 64.0 63.0
Lung & bronchus 71.0 70.0 71.0 71.0 71.0 71.0 67.0 67.0 68.0
Pleura 73.0 74.0 72.0 74.0 76.0 73.0 - - -
Trachea & other respiratory organs 53.0 44.0 62.0 54.0 47.0 63.0 52.0 48.0 58.0
Bones & joints 46.0 44.0 47.0 48.0 47.0 49.0 35.0 34.5 36.0
Soft tissue (including heart) 61.0 62.0 60.0 63.0 64.0 62.0 55.0 54.0 56.0
Skin (excl. basal & squamous): 66.0 68.0 62.0 66.0 68.0 62.0 59.0 59.0 59.0
Melanoma of the skin 65.0 67.0 61.0 65.0 68.0 62.0 64.0 65.0 64.0
Other non-epithelial skin 72.0 73.0 69.0 73.0 74.0 72.0 54.0 53.0 54.0
Breast 63.0 68.0 63.0 64.0 69.0 64.0 60.0 64.0 60.0
Breast (in situ) 60.0 63.0 60.0 60.0 64.0 60.0 60.0 62.0 60.0
Female Genital System: 62.0 - 62.0 63.0 - 63.0 62.0 - 62.0
Cervix uteri 50.0 - 50.0 50.0 - 50.0 53.0 - 53.0
Corpus uteri 63.0 - 63.0 63.0 - 63.0 64.0 - 64.0
Uterus, NOS 66.0 - 66.0 67.0 - 67.0 65.0 - 65.0
Ovaryb 63.0 - 63.0 64.0 - 64.0 61.0 - 61.0
Vagina 68.0 - 68.0 69.0 - 69.0 65.0 - 65.0
Vulva 69.0 - 69.0 70.0 - 70.0 60.0 - 60.0
Other female genital system 66.0 - 66.0 67.0 - 67.0 63.0 - 63.0
Male Genital System: 66.0 66.0 - 67.0 67.0 - 64.0 64.0 -
Prostate 67.0 67.0 - 67.0 67.0 - 64.0 64.0 -
Testis 33.0 33.0 - 33.0 33.0 - 35.0 35.0 -
Penis 69.0 69.0 - 70.0 70.0 - 65.0 65.0 -
Other male genital system 67.0 67.0 - 68.0 68.0 - 57.0 57.0 -
Urinary System: 69.0 69.0 69.0 70.0 70.0 69.0 65.0 64.0 66.0
Urinary bladder 73.0 72.0 73.0 73.0 73.0 73.0 70.0 69.0 72.0
Kidney & renal pelvis 64.0 64.0 65.0 65.0 65.0 66.0 62.0 61.0 63.5
Ureter 75.0 75.0 76.0 75.0 75.0 76.0 71.5 68.0 72.0
Other urinary system 73.5 74.0 73.0 74.0 74.0 75.0 67.0 66.0 69.0
Eye & Orbit 62.0 62.0 62.0 63.0 63.0 63.0 46.0 49.0 41.0
Brain & Nervous System: 59.0 59.0 60.0 60.0 60.0 61.0 53.0 52.0 54.0
Brain 60.0 60.0 61.0 61.0 61.0 61.0 53.0 53.0 54.5
Cranial nerves & other nervous system 47.0 46.0 48.0 47.0 46.0 49.0 45.0 46.5 42.0
Endocrine System: 51.0 55.0 50.0 52.0 56.0 50.0 53.0 56.0 52.0
Thyroid 51.0 55.0 50.0 52.0 56.0 50.0 53.0 56.0 52.0
Other endocrine & thymus 57.0 55.0 59.0 58.0 56.0 59.0 56.0 52.0 59.0
Lymphoma: 66.0 65.0 67.0 67.0 66.0 68.0 58.0 57.0 60.0
Hodgkin lymphoma 39.0 42.0 37.0 40.0 43.0 38.0 39.0 40.0 38.0
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 67.0 67.0 68.0 68.0 67.0 69.0 60.0 59.0 62.0
Myeloma 69.0 69.0 69.0 70.0 69.0 70.0 66.0 66.0 67.0
Leukemia: 67.0 67.0 67.0 68.0 68.0 68.0 62.0 62.0 63.0
Lymphocytic: 66.0 66.0 67.0 67.0 66.0 68.0 64.0 63.0 64.0
Acute lymphocytic 17.0 17.0 17.0 17.0 17.0 17.0 16.0 16.0 16.0
Chronic lymphocytic 70.0 69.0 71.0 70.0 70.0 72.0 67.0 66.0 68.0
Other lymphocytic 64.0 63.0 68.0 64.0 63.0 68.0 66.0 60.5 69.0
Myeloid & Monocytic: 68.0 68.0 67.0 69.0 69.0 68.0 61.0 61.0 62.0
Acute myeloid 68.0 69.0 68.0 69.0 70.0 69.0 62.0 62.0 62.0
Chronic myeloid 65.0 65.0 65.0 67.0 66.0 67.0 59.0 58.0 60.0
Acute monocytic 68.0 70.0 65.0 69.0 70.0 66.0 62.0 65.0 56.5
Other myeloid & monocytic 70.0 70.0 70.0 71.0 71.0 71.0 64.0 63.0 67.0
Other leukemia: 71.0 70.0 71.0 73.0 72.0 73.0 63.0 63.0 64.0
Other acute leukemia 72.0 70.0 75.0 74.0 72.0 76.0 64.0 64.0 64.0
Aleukemic, subleukemic & NOS 70.0 71.0 70.0 72.0 73.0 72.0 63.0 63.0 63.0
Kaposi Sarcoma 50.0 48.0 76.0 55.0 53.0 79.0 38.0 37.0 46.0
Mesothelioma 74.0 75.0 72.0 75.0 75.0 72.0 70.0 72.0 66.0
Ill-defined & unspecified 73.0 72.0 74.0 74.0 73.0 75.0 68.0 67.0 69.0

Footnotes:

a SEER 21 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, Georgia excluding ATL/RG, Idaho, New York and Massachusetts).

b Ovary excludes borderline cases or histologies 8442, 8451, 8462, 8472, and 8473.

- Statistic could not be calculated. Less than 16 cases were diagnosed during the time interval.

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