Cancer survival in Estonia from 1978 to 1987
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In 1978, Estonia established a nationwide cancer registry to tabulate the occurrence and survival statistics for cancers in that country. Now that the registry has been in operation more than 10 years, these data are now beginning to bear fruit in the form of useful cancer information. A table of the most common forms of cancer in Estonia is presented, including both observed and relative survival rates. (Observed rates are the actual survival rates, and do not account for people who die from heart disease and other conditions unrelated to their cancer. A relative survival rate is the survival rate taking into account the normal life expectancy of people the same age and sex as the cancer patients.) The greatest five-year survival rate was for cancer of the lip: 81 percent in men and 98 percent in women. The relative five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 60 percent among Estonian women. As is true for other nations, stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, and cancers of the liver, lung, gallbladder and pancreas all have abysmal survival rates. For most of the cancers, the survival rates of women were superior to those for men, though the survival rates for colon cancer were roughly comparable, at 37 percent for men and 38 percent for women. Curiously, the survival rates of most cancers in Estonia were superior to those of nearby Finland. In addition to tabulating cancer survival rates, the present study also illustrates the usefulness of the thoroughness and good data resources of the Estonian cancer registry. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Cancer
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0008-543X
Year: 1991
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Fallopian tube cancer: the Roswell Park experience
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Primary cancers of the fallopian tube are rare. Although it might seem that fallopian tube cancers might resemble uterine cancers, in fact their behavior more closely resembles that of ovarian cancer. In a review of 64 patients with fallopian tube cancer in the period from 1964 to 1987, researchers compiled statistics confirming that the general prognosis for fallopian tube cancer is poor. In 24 patients, the fallopian tube cancer was part of a syndrome involving multiple tumors of the upper genital tract; 20 of these patients had primary tumors in the ovaries. In the remaining 40 patients with only fallopian tube involvement, the median survival was 28 months. Only 15 percent of the patients remained alive and disease-free during follow-up periods of 2 to 12 years. In contrast to most other forms of cancer, the outcomes of the cases of fallopian tube cancer in this series were unrelated to the stage of the disease or the grade of the tumor. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Cancer
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0008-543X
Year: 1990
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