TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tichanek, Filip
AU  - Försti, Asta
AU  - Liska, Vaclav
AU  - Hemminki, Akseli
AU  - Hemminki, Kari
TI  - Survival in Colon, Rectal and Small Intestinal Cancers in the Nordic Countries through a Half Century.
JO  - Cancers
VL  - 15
IS  - 3
SN  - 2072-6694
CY  - Basel
PB  - MDPI
M1  - DKFZ-2023-00334
SP  - 991
PY  - 2023
N1  - #LA:C020#
AB  - Background: Survival studies in intestinal cancers have generally shown favorable development, but few studies have been able to pinpoint the timing of the changes in survival over an extended period. Here, we compared the relative survival rates for colon, rectal and small intestinal cancers from Denmark (DK), Finland (FI), Norway (NO) and Sweden (SE). Design: Relative 1-, 5- and 5/1-year conditional survival data were obtained from the NORDCAN database for the years 1971-2020. Results: The 50-year survival patterns were country-specific. For colon and rectal cancers, the slopes of survival curves bended upwards for DK, were almost linear for NO and bended downwards for FI and SE; 5-year survival was the highest in DK. Survival in small intestinal cancer was initially below colon and rectal cancers but in FI and NO it caught up toward the end of the follow-up. Conclusions: Relative survival in intestinal cancers has developed well in the Nordic countries, and DK is an example of a country which in 20 years was able to achieve excellent survival rates in colon and rectal cancers. In the other countries, the increase in survival curves for colon and rectal cancer has slowed down, which may be a challenge posed by metastatic cancers.
KW  - incidence (Other)
KW  - prognosis (Other)
KW  - relative survival (Other)
KW  - risk factors (Other)
KW  - treatment (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:36765946
DO  - DOI:10.3390/cancers15030991
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/267556
ER  -