Table 4
Five-year relative survival ratios (RSRs) and increases in survival, by age group and leukemia type, ages 15 to 99, Canada excluding Quebec, 1992 to 2008Note †

Table 4
Five-year relative survival ratios (RSRs) and increases in survival, by age group and leukemia type, ages 15 to 99, Canada excluding Quebec, 1992 to 2008†
Table summary
This table displays the results of Five-year relative survival ratios (RSRs) and increases in survival. The information is grouped by Age group /Leukemia type (appearing as row headers), Time period, Increase in five-year RSR:, 1992 to 1994, 2006 to 2008, 1992-1994 to 2006-2008, RSR (%), 95% confidence interval, % units and p-value, calculated using from and to units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Age group /Leukemia type Time period Increase in five-year RSR:
1992 to 1994 2006 to 2008 1992-1994 to 2006-2008
RSR (%) 95% confidence interval RSR (%) 95% confidence interval % units 95% confidence interval p-value
from to from to from to
15 to 44  
All leukemiasNote ‡ 54.7 51.3 57.9 69.7 66.7 72.4 15.0 10.7 19.4 < 0.0005
All leukemias 53.4 49.9 56.7 70.4 67.5 73.2 17.1 12.6 21.5 < 0.0005
Acute lymphocytic 43.6 36.2 50.9 64.0 56.2 70.9 20.4 10.0 30.8 < 0.0005
Chronic lymphocytic 86.3 75.5 92.8 94.1 87.3 97.6 7.8 -1.9 17.4 0.114
Acute myeloid 40.2 34.7 45.7 61.1 55.6 66.1 20.8 13.2 28.4 < 0.0005
Chronic myeloid 66.3 58.6 72.9 86.5 80.4 90.8 20.2 11.4 29.0 < 0.0005
Other leukemias 65.0 55.1 73.3 63.6 56.2 70.1 -1.4 -12.9 10.1 0.807
45 to 54  
All leukemiasNote ‡ 57.3 54.0 60.5 72.7 70.1 75.2 15.4 11.3 19.5 < 0.0005
All leukemias 54.9 50.9 58.7 74.8 72.0 77.4 19.9 15.2 24.7 < 0.0005
Acute lymphocytic 34.9 20.2 50.1 41.1 27.1 54.6 6.1 -14.7 27.0 0.564
Chronic lymphocytic 87.5 82.1 91.5 94.8 91.9 96.9 7.3 2.0 12.6 0.007
Acute myeloid 21.1 15.4 27.3 43.3 36.8 49.6 22.2 13.5 31.0 < 0.0005
Chronic myeloid 46.1 36.0 55.6 87.5 80.2 92.5 41.4 29.8 53.0 < 0.0005
Other leukemias 58.2 47.4 67.6 65.6 57.8 72.4 7.4 -5.1 20.0 0.245
55 to 64  
All leukemiasNote ‡ 57.2 54.6 59.8 68.7 66.6 70.7 11.4 8.1 14.7 < 0.0005
All leukemias 54.7 51.6 57.7 70.0 67.6 72.3 15.3 11.5 19.1 < 0.0005
Acute lymphocytic 8.1 2.1 19.8 33.8 19.4 49.1 25.7 8.0 43.3 0.005
Chronic lymphocytic 81.4 77.4 84.9 89.2 86.6 91.5 7.8 3.3 12.3 0.001
Acute myeloid 14.3 10.4 18.7 25.6 21.1 30.2 11.3 5.1 17.5 < 0.0005
Chronic myeloid 47.1 37.8 56.1 77.1 69.5 83.4 30.0 18.5 41.6 < 0.0005
Other leukemias 52.8 44.1 60.9 60.7 53.0 67.6 7.9 -3.2 19.0 0.164
65 to 74  
All leukemiasNote ‡ 46.9 44.6 49.2 59.3 57.3 61.2 12.4 9.4 15.4 < 0.0005
All leukemias 44.2 41.6 46.8 60.3 58.0 62.6 16.1 12.6 19.6 < 0.0005
Acute lymphocytic 5.9 1.1 17.4 16.0 6.3 30.0 10.1 -4.4 24.6 0.171
Chronic lymphocytic 73.2 69.4 76.9 86.8 84.0 89.4 13.6 9.0 18.2 < 0.0005
Acute myeloid 4.6 2.8 7.2 11.7 9.0 14.9 7.1 3.4 10.8 < 0.0005
Chronic myeloid 25.6 19.2 32.7 52.9 44.6 60.9 27.3 16.7 37.9 < 0.0005
Other leukemias 32.5 26.5 38.7 38.4 31.6 45.2 5.9 -3.3 15.0 0.210
75 to 99  
All leukemiasNote ‡ 33.4 30.7 36.1 43.1 40.9 45.2 9.7 6.2 13.2 < 0.0005
All leukemias 31.4 28.7 34.2 42.6 40.2 44.9 11.2 7.5 14.8 < 0.0005
Acute lymphocytic 0.0 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable 13.9 4.9 28.4 13.9 Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable Note ...: not applicable
Chronic lymphocytic 53.5 48.7 58.3 68.5 64.9 72.1 15.0 9.0 21.0 < 0.0005
Acute myeloid 4.7 2.6 7.7 3.8 2.4 5.8 -0.8 -3.8 2.2 0.591
Chronic myeloid 20.0 13.7 27.5 37.1 30.1 44.4 17.1 7.1 27.0 0.001
Other leukemias 18.0 13.3 23.5 19.0 14.5 24.2 1.0 -6.0 8.1 0.771
... not applicable
Note †

period method of survival analysis used for 2006 to 2008; cohort method for 1992 to 1994

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Note ‡

RSRs standardized by case-mix (primary result); unstandardized RSRs directly below for comparison

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Sources: Canadian Cancer Registry database; life tables.

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