The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden

Table 2 Cancer diagnoses, premature mortality and FLYLAD_cancer, South Australia 1990–2010

	Cases among non-Aboriginal				Cases among Aboriginal				Matched cases among non-Aboriginal^#
	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs
Risk
Age at diagnosis (years)	144,114	100.0%	65.5	65.4–65.6	777	100.0%	57.7	56.6–58.8	777	100.0%	58.5	57.4–59.5
Life years at risk (LYAR)			24.1	24.1–24.2			31.0	30.0–32.0			30.3	29.3–31.3
Loss
Cancer deaths* and age (years)	62,936	43.7%	71.7	71.6–71.8	461	59.3%	61.5	60.2–62.9	340	43.8%	63.7	62.1–65.2
Years of life lost from cancer (YLL_cancer)			8.2	8.2–8.3			16.3	15.1–17.5			11.2	10.1–12.3
Fraction of loss: risk
Fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD_cancer)			0.39	0.39–0.40			0.55	0.52–0.59			0.40	0.37–0.44

Among observations right-censored at 31/12/2011
^#Randomly selected cancer cases among non-Aboriginal people matched one to one with cases among Aboriginal by sex, year of birth, year of diagnosis and primary cancer site

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