TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hemminki, Kari
AU  - Zitricky, Frantisek
AU  - Försti, Asta
AU  - Hemminki, Otto
AU  - Liska, Vaclav
AU  - Hemminki, Akseli
TI  - Survival improvements in esophageal and gastric cancers in the Nordic countries favor younger patients.
JO  - Cancer medicine
VL  - 13
IS  - 15
SN  - 2045-7634
CY  - Hoboken, NJ
PB  - Wiley
M1  - DKFZ-2024-01581
SP  - e7365
PY  - 2024
N1  - #EA:Z999#
AB  - 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
KW  - Humans
KW  - Esophageal Neoplasms: mortality
KW  - Esophageal Neoplasms: epidemiology
KW  - Stomach Neoplasms: mortality
KW  - Stomach Neoplasms: epidemiology
KW  - Male
KW  - Female
KW  - Aged, 80 and over
KW  - Aged
KW  - Middle Aged
KW  - Age Factors
KW  - Registries
KW  - Scandinavian and Nordic Countries: epidemiology
KW  - Adult
KW  - Survival Rate
KW  - mortality (Other)
KW  - relative survival (Other)
KW  - risk factors (Other)
KW  - stomach cancer (Other)
KW  - treatment (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:39096090
C2  - pmc:PMC11297530
DO  - DOI:10.1002/cam4.7365
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/292073
ER  -