Prostate cancer, malignant (ICD10 C61): men

 

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

65.0%

80.7%

92.8%

93.2%

(unstandardized)

(62.8-67.1%)

(79.2-82.0%)

(91.5-94.0%)

(91.9-94.4%)

all 15-99

65.2%

80.5%

89.9%

90.4%

-

77.5%

(age-standardized)#

(59.6-70.4%)

(77.2-83.5%)

(86.7-92.8%)

(87.3-93.3%)

[sparse data]

(76.5-78.6%)

15-44

65.2%

86.8%

95.5%

97.3%

(54.7-74.0%)

(82.2-90.4%)

(93.3-97.2%)

(94.7-99.0%)

45-54

70.9%

89.2%

96.8%

96.9%

(66.4-74.9%)

(87.1-91.1%)

(95.3-98.1%)

(95.5-98.2%)

55-64

65.6%

83.4%

93.1%

92.8%

(62.5-68.5%)

(81.3-85.2%)

(91.2-94.9%)

(90.9-94.5%)

65-74

62.2%

68.0%

82.4%

83.1%

(58.0-66.3%)

(64.6-71.2%)

(78.1-86.5%)

(79.0-87.0%)

75-99

53.5%

61.2%

57.9%

60.4%

(41.3-67.0%)

(51.1-72.0%)

(45.2-71.7%)

(47.7-74.2%)

 

 

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 15-54 x19000, 55-64 x23000, 65-74 x29000, 75-84 x239000, 85-99 x6000; note age-ranges used for this cancer differ from most other cancers)

## 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