Racial/ethnic, age and sex disparities in leukemia survival among adults in the United States during 1973-2014 period.

ABSTRACT: There has been marked improvement in leukemia survival, particularly among children in recent time. However, the long-term trends in survival among adult leukemia patients and the associated sex and racial survival disparities are not well understood. We, therefore, evaluated the secular trends in survival improvement of leukemia patients from 1973 through 2014, using Surveillance Epidemiology and End-Result Survey Program (SEER) data. ICD-O-3 morphology codes were used to group leukemia into four types: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Survival analysis for each leukemia type stratified by race/ethnicity, age, sex was performed to generate relative survival probability estimates for the ba

SUBMITTER: Utuama O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699686 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature