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

Five-year relative survival by HSE area of residence and age at diagnosis (2003-2007 diagnosis period)

	Five-year relative survival (with 95% confidence interval) by HSE area of residence (2003-2007)
Age at diagnosis	Total	Dublin /	Dublin /	South	West
		Mid Leinster	North East
all 15-99	57.6%	59.3%	58.2%	57.2%	55.6%
(unstandardized)	(56.0-59.1%)	(56.2-62.3%)	(54.7-61.5%)	(54.3-60.0%)	(52.4-58.7%)
all 15-99	57.0%	59.1%	57.4%	56.6%	54.6%
(age-standardized)#	(53.7-60.2%)	(52.6-65.1%)	(50.1-64.3%)	(50.4-62.4%)	(47.7-60.9%)
15-44	64.0%	69.6%	61.7%	63.3%	62.5%
	(57.6-69.6%)	(58.0-78.6%)	(47.4-73.2%)	(51.9-72.7%)	(47.0-74.7%)
45-54	63.1%	65.6%	61.7%	60.4%	63.8%
	(58.9-66.8%)	(57.7-72.4%)	(53.2-69.2%)	(52.2-67.6%)	(54.8-71.5%)
55-64	60.5%	62.6%	63.4%	57.1%	59.8%
	(57.4-63.5%)	(56.3-68.3%)	(56.6-69.5%)	(51.4-62.3%)	(53.2-65.8%)
65-74	57.1%	58.0%	57.0%	60.0%	53.5%
	(54.4-59.7%)	(52.8-62.9%)	(50.9-62.7%)	(55.0-64.6%)	(48.0-58.7%)
75-99	49.8%	52.2%	50.3%	49.6%	45.8%
	(46.7-53.0%)	(45.8-58.6%)	(43.3-57.5%)	(43.8-55.4%)	(40.2-51.4%)

Footnotes:

# Age-standardized figures (presented for the more common cancers) 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)

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