Testicular cancer, malignant (ICD10 C62)

 

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

89.2%

95.5%

97.0%

97.7%

(unstandardized)

(82.5-92.3%)

(93.2-97.0%)

(95.0-98.3%)

(95.8-98.9%)

all 15-64

87.9%

94.9%

97.0%

97.4%

-

97.3%

(age-standardized)#

(84.8-98.5%)

[sparse data]

(96.4-98.2%)

15-44

90.7%

95.9%

96.8%

98.0%

(86.6-93.6%)

(93.6-97.4%)

(94.6-98.2%)

(96.0-99.1%)

45-54

83.4%

90.9%

95.2%

91.3%

(65.2-93.2%)

(76.3-97.1%)

(84.8-98.7%)

(75.7-97.3%)

55-64

75.5%

93.1%

100.0%

100.0%

(31.7-93.7%)

(59.2-99.2%)

-

-

 

 

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 15-44 x60000, 45-54 x10000, 55-64 x10000, total 80000 - other ages 65-99 excluded from  age-standardized data for comparability with EUROCARE-4 results)

## 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