Treatment and Survival in Acute Leukemia: A New South Wales Study Comparing Adolescents and Young Adults with Children and Adults
Table 1
Characteristics of patients with ALL and AML by age in NSW cancer registry, 2003–2015.
ALL (N = 1053)
AML (N = 566)
0–14 (n = 761)
15–24 (n = 162)
25–39 (n = 130)
0–14 (n = 149)
15–24 (n = 129)
25–39 (n = 288)
Sex
0.036
0.535
Female
336 (44.2)
54 (33.3)
52 (40.0)
62 (41.6)
62 (48.1)
125 (43.4)
Male
425 (55.9)
108 (66.7)
78 (60.0)
87 (58.4)
67 (51.9)
163 (56.6)
Country of birth
<0.001
<0.001
Australia
707 (92.9)
129 (79.6)
84 (64.6)
138 (92.6)
108 (83.7)
184 (63.9)
Other English-speaking
20 (2.6)
9 (5.6)
10 (7.7)
4 (2.7)
5 (3.9)
14 (4.9)
Non-English-speaking
31 (4.1)
24 (14.8)
36 (27.7)
5 (3.4)
16 (12.4)
80 (27.8)
Unknown
3 (0.4)
0 (0)
0 (0)
2 (1.3)
0 (0)
10 (3.5)
Residential remoteness
0.995
0.753
Major cities
570 (74.9)
122 (75.3)
98 (75.4)
115 (77.2)
96 (74.4)
227 (78.8)
Inner region
137 (18.0)
30 (18.5)
23 (17.7)
24 (16.1)
26 (20.2)
43 (14.9)
Outer region and remote
54 (7.1)
10 (6.2)
9 (6.9)
10 (6.7)
7 (5.4)
18 (6.3)
SEIFA quintiles
0.987
0.637
1st (most disadvantaged)
139 (18.3)
26 (16.1)
21 (16.2)
23 (15.4)
31 (24.0)
60 (20.8)
2nd
134 (17.6)
27 (16.7)
24 (18.5)
39 (26.2)
27 (20.9)
67 (23.3)
3rd
186 (24.4)
36 (22.2)
31 (23.9)
30 (20.1)
23 (17.8)
60 (20.8)
4th
151 (19.8)
34 (21.0)
27 (20.8)
24 (16.1)
22 (17.1)
47 (16.3)
5th (least disadvantaged)
150 (19.7)
39 (24.1)
27 (20.8)
33 (22.2)
25 (19.4)
54 (18.8)
Unknown
1 (0.1)
0 (0)
0 (0)
0
1 (0.8)
0 (0)
Diagnosis period
0.359
0.976
2003–2007
283 (37.2)
57 (35.2)
46 (35.4)
56 (37.6)
48 (37.1)
102 (35.4)
2008–2012
297 (39.0)
60 (37.0)
43 (33.1)
57 (38.6)
52 (40.1)
114 (39.6)
2013–2015
181 (23.8)
45 (27.8)
41 (31.5)
36 (24.2)
29 (22.5)
72 (25.0)
Vital status on 31st Dec. 2015
<0.001
0.520
Alive
672 (88.3)
117 (72.2)
79 (60.8)
113 (75.8)
90 (69.8)
197 (68.4)
Died of leukemia
77 (10.1)
42 (25.9)
40 (30.8)
33 (22.2)
35 (27.1)
85 (29.5)
Died of other causes other than leukemia
12 (1.6)
3 (1.9)
11 (8.5)
3 (2.0)
4 (3.1)
6 (2.1)
Numbers in the table: case number (%). from the Chi-square test (or Fisher’s exact chi-square test when a cell count <5) excluding “unknown.” Abbreviations: SEIFA: socio-economic index for areas; ALL: acute lymphoid leukemia; AML: acute myeloid leukemia.