Breast cancer, malignant (ICD10 C50): women

 

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

73.8%

79.8%

85.0%

85.4%

(unstandardized)

(72.5-75.1%)

(78.8-80.8%)

(83.8-86.1%)

(84.3-86.5%)

all 15-99

71.7%

76.8%

81.8%

82.1%

76.2%

79.0%

(age-standardized)#

(68.3-74.9%)

(74.1-79.2%)

(78.6-84.7%)

(79.0-84.9%)

(74.3-78.2%)

(78.1-80.0%)

15-44

75.7%

82.0%

84.9%

85.5%

(72.7-78.3%)

(79.7-84%)

(82.2-87.1%)

(82.9-87.7%)

45-54

78.6%

84.8%

88.4%

90.0%

(76.3-80.6%)

(83.2-86.2%)

(86.5-90.0%)

(88.2-91.5%)

55-64

73.0%

80.9%

87.5%

87.7%

(70.4-75.4%)

(79.1-82.5%)

(85.6-89.1%)

(85.7-89.4%)

65-74

70.2%

75.4%

81.7%

81.6%

(67.0-73.2%)

(72.8-77.8%)

(78.6-84.4%)

(78.6-84.3%)

75-99

68.5%

70.2%

74.0%

74.0%

(63.7-73.2%)

(66.3-73.9%)

(69.1-78.7%)

(69.2-78.6%)

 

 

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 2005-2006 (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.

Cancer registration is a dynamic process and information is continually updated on our database.

 

As a result, the figures given here may not correspond exactly to those in previous reports or to those previously shown on our website.

 

 

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