Colorectal cancer, malignant (ICD10 C18-C21): combined sexes

 

See also separate figures for colon (C18) and rectum / anus (C19-C21)

 

 

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

49.0%

52.5%

57.6%

58.2%

(unstandardized)

(47.5-50.5%)

(51.2-53.8%)

(56.0-59.1%)

(56.5-59.8%)

all 15-99

48.9%

52.4%

57.0%

57.2%

54.3%

56.2%

(age-standardized)#

(45.6-52.1%)

(49.6-55.1%)

(53.7-60.2%)

(53.7-60.5%)

(52.6-56.0%)

(55.3-57.2%)

15-44

50.2%

56.1%

64.0%

63.1%

(43.5-56.4%)

(50.4-61.3%)

(57.6-69.6%)

(56-69.4%)

45-54

50.0%

59.1%

63.1%

63.8%

(45.8-53.9%)

(55.6-62.3%)

(58.9-66.8%)

(59.3-68%)

55-64

50.6%

57.7%

60.5%

62.5%

(47.7-53.4%)

(55.1-60.1%)

(57.4-63.5%)

(59.3-65.4%)

65-74

48.9%

51.4%

57.1%

56.5%

(46.3-51.3%)

(49.2-53.5%)

(54.4-59.7%)

(53.6-59.2%)

75-99

46.9%

45.5%

49.8%

49.5%

(43.7-50.1%)

(42.8-48.2%)

(46.7-53.0%)

(46.2-52.8%)

 

 

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.

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