Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (ICD10 C82-C85 & C96): combined sexes

 

Five-year relative survival by diagnosis year and age at diagnosis

 

 

Five-year relative survival (with 95% confidence interval) by diagnosis year

EUROCARE-4

EUROCARE-4

Age at diagnosis

1994-97

1998-2002

2003-2007

2007-2009

##2000-2002

##2000-2002

cohort

cohort

cohort

*hybrid

Ireland

Europe average

all 15-99

52.9%

57.2%

67.7%

68.2%

(unstandardized)

(49.8-55.8%)

(54.7-59.5%)

(64.9-70.3%)

(65.3-70.9%)

all 15-99

47.6%

51.2%

61.1%

61.6%

52.0%

54.6%

(age-standardized)#

(41.2-53.9%)

(46.0-56.2%)

(55.3-66.7%)

(55.5-67.3%)

(47.5-56.9%)

(52.7-56.6%)

15-44

67.4%

72.1%

83.6%

84.5%

(60.8-73.1%)

(66.8-76.6%)

(78.9-87.4%)

(78.9-88.8%)

45-54

63.1%

68.7%

76.6%

78.6%

(56.4-69.1%)

(63.3-73.4%)

(70.8-81.5%)

(72.2-83.8%)

55-64

55.8%

62.0%

72.8%

74.7%

(49.7-61.5%)

(57.1-66.5%)

(68.1-76.9%)

(69.3-79.4%)

65-74

43.9%

49.3%

62.7%

63.9%

(38.2-49.5%)

(44.4-54.0%)

(56.6-68.4%)

(57.8-69.4%)

75-99

33.5%

32.2%

38.6%

36.4%

(26.3-41.3%)

(26.7-38.1%)

(31.8-45.6%)

(29.5-43.7%)

 

 

Footnotes:

*Hybrid estimate for 2007-2009 is the most up-to-date survival estimate and is based on follow-up of all cases alive at any point during this period,

 

supplemented by follow-up 2005-2009 for cases diagnosed in 2005 or 2006 (to provide more reliable estimation of the first two years of survival).

 

In practice, the hybrid estimate for 2007-2009 is similar to the most recent (incomplete) cohort, i.e. cases diagnosed 2003-2007, reflecting substantial overlap of data.

 

# Age-standardized figures use the standard patient population proposed for this cancer by:

Corazziari I., Quinn M. & Capocaccia R. 2004. Standard cancer patient population for age standardising survival ratios. Eur J Cancer 40: 2307-2316.

(Population weights = age 15-44 x7000, 45-54 x12000, 55-64 x23000, 65-74 x29000, 75-99 x29000)

## For comparison, the age-standardized average survival (2000-2002) is quoted for countries (including Ireland) that participated in the EUROCARE-4 study:

Verdecchia A., Francisci S., Brenner H., et al. 2007. Recent cancer survival in Europe: a 2000-02 period analysis of EUROCARE-4 data. Lancet Oncol 8: 784-796.

Exclusions (as in EUROCARE):

Patients aged <15 or >99 at diagnosis; death-certificate-only (DCO) and autopsy-only cases; second or subsequent malignancies in the same patient

(or the less serious of two or more synchronously-diagnosed malignancies); in situ carcinomas and tumours of uncertain behaviour.

© National Cancer Registry Ireland 2011 (October 2011)  Relative survival statistics for Irish cancer patients