Kidney & related urinary system cancer, malignant (ICD10 C64-C66 & C68): combined sexes

 

This is the EUROCARE definition used for kidney cancer, and includes other parts of the urinary tract (with the exception of bladder)

 

 

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

50.7%

52.0%

57.5%

60.1%

(unstandardized)

(46.8-54.4%)

(48.9-55.0%)

(54.0-60.8%)

(56.5-63.5%)

all 15-99

47.3%

48.6%

53.7%

56.4%

54.1%

55.7%

(age-standardized)#

(39.4-54.9%)

(42.2-54.8%)

(46.8-60.4%)

(46.9-60.8%)

(47.8-61.2%)

(53.6-58.0%)

15-44

72.4%

77.5%

79.2%

85.4%

(59.5-81.8%)

(68.4-84.4%)

(70.9-85.5%)

(74.8-91.9%)

45-54

62.2%

64.9%

70.9%

72.7%

(53.6-69.6%)

(57.8-71.1%)

(63.7-77.0%)

(64.0-79.6%)

55-64

57.1%

51.8%

62.1%

66.7%

(49.9-63.6%)

(46.1-57.2%)

(55.4-68.2%)

(60.2-72.6%)

65-74

42.5%

48.1%

51.9%

54.4%

(35.7-49.2%)

(42.5-53.5%)

(45.9-57.7%)

(47.7-60.7%)

75-99

32.2%

32.9%

35.6%

36.4%

(24.0-41.2%)

(26.1-40.2%)

(28.0-43.8%)

(28.4-44.9%)

 

 

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