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BACKGROUND:The Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center risk model classifies patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) by 5 pretreatment features as favorable, intermediate, and poor risk. The number of Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center patients in each risk group was examined by year of treatment to analyze stage migration.
METHODS:The distribution of risk groups was examined retrospectively...
BACKGROUND:Over the last 4 decades, childhood cancer mortality declined in most developed areas of the world. However, scant information is available from middle‐income and developing countries. The authors analyzed and compared patterns in childhood cancer mortality in 24 developed and middle‐income countries in America, Asia, and Oceania between 1970 and 2007.
METHODS:Childhood age‐standardized...
BACKGROUND:In 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration approved an implantable balloon catheter that delivers accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) after breast‐conserving surgery (BCS). The objective of the current study was to determine the use of implantable APBI (IAPBI) in the United States and factors associated with IAPBI use.
METHODS:By using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End...
BACKGROUND:Radiation therapy (RT) after breast‐conserving surgery (BCS) is associated with a significant reduction in ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence and breast cancer mortality rates in patients with early stage breast cancer. The authors of this report sought to determine which patients with breast cancer do not receive RT after BCS in the United States.
METHODS:The Surveillance, Epidemiology,...
BACKGROUND:Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM) is a non‐Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) subtype. Little is known about the incidence and trends for this disease in the United States.
METHODS:Twenty‐year data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program were used for this study. SEER*Stat was used for data analysis.
RESULTS:Of the 95,797 cases of NHL diagnosed between 1988 and 2007 in...
BACKGROUND:More women of fertile age are long‐term survivors of cancer. However, population‐based data on birth rates of female cancer survivors are rare.
METHODS:A total of 42,691 women ≤ 45 years with a history of cancer were identified from the Swedish Multi‐Generation Register and the Swedish Cancer Register, for whom relative birth rates were calculated as compared to the background population,...
BACKGROUNDAn association between the survival of patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC) and advancements in diagnosis and therapy has not been established.
METHODSThis was a retrospective, longitudinal, international, population‐based study of 2738 patients who underwent resection of OCSCC during 2 different decades. Characteristics of patients from 7 international cancer centers...
BACKGROUNDProstate cancer treatment after failure of primary therapy by either radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy can vary greatly. This study sought to determine trends and predictors of salvage treatment after failure of primary treatment in a community cohort over the past 10 years.
METHODSFrom the community‐based Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor (CaPSURE) database,...
BACKGROUNDPancreatic cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the Medicare population. Whether the health care burden of pancreatic cancer has changed over the last decade is unknown.
METHODSThe authors used Medicare data from 2000 to 2010 to identify beneficiaries aged ≥ 65 years who were hospitalized for the management of pancreatic cancer. Annual trends were estimated for the age‐sex‐race–adjusted...
BACKGROUNDThe American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States. This year's report includes the prevalence of comorbidity at the...
BACKGROUNDLung cancer incidence rates overall are declining in the United States. This study investigated the trends by histologic type and demographic characteristics.
METHODSSurveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program rates of microscopically confirmed lung cancer overall and squamous cell, small cell, adenocarcinoma, large cell, other, and unspecified carcinomas among US whites...
BACKGROUND
Young age at diagnosis has a negative prognostic impact on outcome in patients with breast cancer (BC). In the current study, the authors sought to determine whether there is a differential effect of race and examined mortality trends according to race and age.
METHODS: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program was used to identify women aged <50 years with invasive BC...
BACKGROUNDThe incidence of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) in the United States is notably higher among white men versus other men. Previously, however, it was reported that rates were rising among Hispanics in certain areas. To determine whether this finding was evident in a wider area of the United States, data from 39 US cancer registries were examined.
METHODSRacial/ethnic‐specific incidence...
BACKGROUNDWith prior reports indicating a lack of progress in survival improvement in older adolescents and young adults (AYAs) aged 15 to 39 years with cancer compared with both younger and older patients with cancer, the current analysis provides an update of survival trends of cancers among AYAs, children, and older adults.
METHODSData from the National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology,...
BACKGROUNDAnnual updates on cancer occurrence and trends in the United States are provided through an ongoing collaboration among the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR). This annual report highlights the increasing burden of liver and intrahepatic...
BACKGROUNDAlthough colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rates are declining, racial‐ethnic disparities in CRC mortality nationally are widening. Herein, the authors attempted to identify county‐level variations in this pattern, and to characterize counties with improving disparity trends.
METHODSThe authors examined 20‐year trends in US county‐level black‐white disparities in CRC age‐adjusted mortality...
BACKGROUNDHigh rates of childhood leukemia incidence have been reported in Latin America and among Hispanic children in the United States. California's large Hispanic population affords an important opportunity to perform a detailed analysis of the leukemia burden among Hispanic children.
METHODSLeukemias diagnosed among non‐Hispanic white (NHW), Hispanic, African American (AA), and Asian/Pacific...
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Results from the second CONCORD study (CONCORD‐2) indicated that 5‐year net survival for lung cancer was low (range, 10%‐20%) between 1995 and 2009 in most countries, including the United States, which was at the higher end of this range.
METHODS
Data from CONCORD‐2 were used to analyze net survival among patients with lung cancer (aged 15‐99 years) who were diagnosed in 37 states covering...
BACKGROUND
The 5‐year relative survival for prostate cancers diagnosed between 1990 and 1994 in the United States was very high (92%); however, survival in black males was 7% lower compared with white males. The authors updated these findings and examined survival by stage and race.
METHODS
The authors used data from the CONCORD‐2 study for males (ages 15‐99 years) who were diagnosed with prostate...
BACKGROUND
Overall, cervical cancer survival in the United States has been reported to be among the highest in the world, despite slight decreases over the last decade. Objective of the current study was to describe cervical cancer survival trends among US women and examine differences by race and stage.
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This study used data from the CONCORD‐2 study to compare survival among women (aged...
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