Trends in survival of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in Germany and the USA in the first decade of the twenty-first century

Table 2 Trend analysis of 5-year-period relative survival for age-group-specific and age-adjusted CLL in Germany and the USA

Variable	2003–2005		2006–2008		2009–2011		p Value	Difference
Variable	Relative survival	SE	Relative survival	SE	Relative survival	SE	p Value	Difference
Germany
All^a	77.8	1.0	80.5	0.8	80.2	0.8	0.004	+2.4
Male^a	75.5	1.5	80.5	1.2	78.4	1.0	0.04	+2.9
Female^a	80.9	1.4	80.9	1.1	82.9	1.1	0.04	+2.0
Age group
15–44	90.9	3.4	94.0	2.5	93.4	2.5	0.7	+2.5
45–54	87.2	2.2	93.0	1.6	91.5	1.6	0.1	+4.3
55–64	86.5	1.4	86.4	1.3	85.9	1.3	0.9	−0.6
65–74	79.5	1.6	80.4	1.3	81.7	1.2	0.06	+2.2
75+	62.3	2.7	67.6	2.1	65.1	1.9	0.03	+2.9
USA
All^a	80.7	0.8	83.8	0.7	82.4	0.7	0.1	+1.7
Male^a	79.7	1.1	82.0	1.0	81.4	1.0	0.2	+1.7
Female^a	82.6	1.2	86.4	1.0	84.2	1.0	0.4	+1.6
Age group
15–44	89.9	2.8	90.4	3.1	91.4	3.1	0.8	+1.5
45–54	87.3	1.7	94.0	1.3	95.1	1.2	0.0004	+7.8
55–64	87.6	1.3	89.1	1.2	88.7	1.1	0.5	+1.1
65–74	82.6	1.5	86.0	1.3	83.2	1.3	0.9	+0.6
75+	68.4	1.8	71.6	1.7	69.3	1.6	0.7	+0.9

p value for trend, derived from the model. Diff = change from 2003–2005 to 2009–2011
SE standard error
^aAge adjusted

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