Epidemiology of Adult Soft-Tissue Sarcomas in Germany

Table 6

Cancer-specific mortality rates in patients diagnosed with soft-tissue sarcoma per 100,000 inhabitants in four German states in 2012, by sex and age.

Age (years)	Deaths (n)	Population	Rate (95% CI)
Male
18–44	15	2,888,628	0.52 (0.29–0.86)
45–54	18	1,435,925	1.25 (0.74–1.98)
55–64	23	1,058,370	2.17 (1.38–3.26)
65–74	48	872,392	5.50 (4.06–7.30)
75+	53	618,462	8.57 (6.42–11.21)
Total	157	6,873,777	2.28 (1.94–2.67)
Female
18–44	13	2,836,651	0.46 (0.24–0.78)
45–54	18	1,414,017	1.27 (0.75–2.01)
55–64	38	1,096,789	3.47 (2.45–4.76)
65–74	37	961,609	3.85 (2.71–5.30)
75+	64	991,389	6.46 (4.97–8.24)
Total	170	7,300,455	2.33 (1.99–2.71)
Both sexes
18–44	28	5,725,279	0.49 (0.33–0.71)
45–54	36	2,849,942	1.26 (0.89–1.75)
55–64	61	2,155,159	2.83 (2.17–3.64)
65–74	85	1,834,001	4.64 (3.70–5.73)
75+	117	1,609,851	7.27 (6.01–8.71)
Total	327	14,174,232	2.31 (2.06–2.57)

CI: confidence interval. Data in this table are based on the four federal states that consistently reported the cause of death, all four of which have at least 90% completeness of data; in Bremen, the seven deaths with missing cause of death were assumed to be cancer-specific deaths.