%0 Journal Article
%A Hemminki, Kari
%A Zitricky, Frantisek
%A Försti, Asta
%A Hemminki, Otto
%A Liska, Vaclav
%A Hemminki, Akseli
%T Survival improvements in esophageal and gastric cancers in the Nordic countries favor younger patients.
%J Cancer medicine
%V 13
%N 15
%@ 2045-7634
%C Hoboken, NJ
%I Wiley
%M DKFZ-2024-01581
%P e7365
%D 2024
%Z #EA:Z999#
%X Esophageal cancer (EC) and gastric cancer (GC) are fatal cancers with a relatively late age of onset. Age is a negative risk factor for survival in many cancers and our aim was to analyze age-specific survival in EC and GC using the recently updated NORDCAN database. NORDCAN data originate from the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish nationwide cancer registries covering years 1972 through 2021 inviting for comparison of 50-year survival trends between the countries. Relative 1- and 5-year survival and 5/1-year conditional survival (i.e., survival in those who were alive in Year 1 to survive additional 4 years) were analyzed. Survival in EC showed large gains for patients below age 80 years, 5-year survival in Norwegian men reaching 30
%K Humans
%K Esophageal Neoplasms: mortality
%K Esophageal Neoplasms: epidemiology
%K Stomach Neoplasms: mortality
%K Stomach Neoplasms: epidemiology
%K Male
%K Female
%K Aged, 80 and over
%K Aged
%K Middle Aged
%K Age Factors
%K Registries
%K Scandinavian and Nordic Countries: epidemiology
%K Adult
%K Survival Rate
%K mortality (Other)
%K relative survival (Other)
%K risk factors (Other)
%K stomach cancer (Other)
%K treatment (Other)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:39096090
%2 pmc:PMC11297530
%R 10.1002/cam4.7365
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/292073