SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: US SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics
This monograph examines cancer survival by patient and tumor characteristics for over 1.6 million adult cancers diagnosed during the period 1988-2001. Survival data are from NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program and represent cancer in approximately one-fourth of the U.S. population. The patient and tumor characteristics shown vary by cancer site. The tumor characteristics may include subsite, size of tumor, extension of the tumor, lymph nodes positive, distant metastases, and histologic type. The patient characteristics are age, race, and sex.
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Monograph Chapters (PDF Files)
- Title, Acknowledgments, and Dedication - 742 KB
- Table of Contents and Contributors - 319 KB
- Introduction - 398 KB
- Cancers of the Head and Neck - 1 MB
- Digestive Cancers
- Cancers of the Esophagus, Stomach, and Small Intestine - 507 KB
- Cancers of the Colon and Rectum - 471 KB
- Cancer of the Anus - 431 KB
- Cancers of the Liver and Biliary Tract - 529 KB
- Cancer of the Pancreas - 466 KB
- Cancer of the Larynx - 473 KB
- Cancer of the Lung - 476 KB
- Cancers of the Bone and Joint - 502 KB
- Sarcomas - 346 KB
- Melanoma - 564 KB
- Cancer of the Female Breast - 532 KB
- Female Gynecologic Cancers
- Cancer of the Cervix Uteri - 603 KB
- Cancer of the Corpus Uteri - 636 KB
- Cancer of the Ovary - 590 KB
- Cancer of the Placenta - 330 KB
- Cancer of the Vulva - 482 KB
- Cancer of the Vagina - 417 KB
- Cancer of the Fallopian Tube - 408 KB
- Cancer of the Testis - 458 KB
- Cancer of the Prostate - 728 KB
- Cancer of the Urinary Bladder - 873 KB
- Cancers of the Kidney and Renal Pelvis - 758 KB
- Cancer of the Brain and Other Central Nervous System - 734 KB
- Cancer of the Thyroid - 524 MB
- Hodgkin Lymphoma - 587 KB
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - 695 KB
- Leukemia - 569 KB
- Cancers of Rare Sites - 492 KB
- Race and Ethnicity - 499 kB
- Monograph Cover - 290 KB
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Suggested Citation
Ries LAG, Young JL, Keel GE, Eisner MP, Lin YD, Horner M-J (editors). SEER Survival Monograph: Cancer Survival Among Adults: U.S. SEER Program, 1988-2001, Patient and Tumor Characteristics. National Cancer Institute, SEER Program, NIH Pub. No. 07-6215, Bethesda, MD, 2007.
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