Conditional relative survival among long-term survivors of adolescent and young adult cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies have examined long-term outcomes after childhood cancer, but few address outcomes for adolescent and young adult (AYA; those aged 15-39 years) cancer survivors. Conditional survival reflects changing mortality risk with time since cancer diagnosis and is a useful measure for planning long-term follow-up care.

Methods

Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry 9 database, the authors identified a cohort of AYA patients diagnosed with a first malignant cancer between 1973 and 2009 and followed through 2014. They estimated 5-year relative survival at the time of diagnosis and at each additional year survived up to 25 years after diagnosis, conditional on the individual being alive at the beginning of that year.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Anderson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033635 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature