Racial differences in 5-year relative survival rates of cervical cancer by stage at diagnosis, between African American (black) and white women, living in the state of Alabama, USA

Table 1 5-Year Relative Survival (age standardized) SEER 18, Malignant Derived SS 2000 (Localized, Regional, Distant and Unknown Stages) Cervical Cancer in Black and White Alabamians by County, Includes Cases Diagnosed in 2004–2013

County	Stage	Number of women alive at the start of the first interval	5-year % relative survival	The relative cumulative survival CIs lower & upper	Number of women alive at the start of the first interval	5-year % relative survival	The relative cumulative survival CIs lower & upper
		Blacks			Whites
Urban	Localized	223	72.7	55.4–84.2	1647	77.8	70.7–83.3
	Regional	209	43.9	31.8–55.4	1204	48.8	43.5–53.9
	Distant	97	^a	^a	472	12.2	8.3–17.0
	Unknown	21	^a	^a	108	30.7	19.1–43.2
Black Belt	Localized	94	73.2	47.4–87.8	1088	83.8	74.5–89.9
	Regional	115	^a	^a	809	49.5	43.4–55.4
	Distant	36	^a	^a	283	14.2	9.0–20.6
	Unknown	14	17.0	13.8–20.5	100	40.7	28.7–52.3
Other Rural	Localized	1025	83.8	74.2–90.1	7323	83.7	79.9–86.8
	Regional	1089	49.0	43.4–54.3	5426	51.2	48.7–53.7
	Distant	408	11.7	7.4–17.0	1959	13.6	11.4–16.1
	Unknown	153	35.4	26.2–44.7	640	39.8	34.4–45.2

CIs Confidence interval: The level is 95%
^a The statistic could not be calculated (The RSR could not be calculated because there was only expected percentage and the observed percentage was missing)

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