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

Table 3 Cancer diagnoses, premature mortality and FLYLAD_cancer by stage at diagnosis, South Australia 1990–2010

	Localised at diagnosis								Regional spread at diagnosis								Distant/Unknown spread at diagnosis
	Aboriginal				Matched non-Aboriginal^#				Aboriginal				Matched non-Aboriginal^#				Aboriginal				Matched non-Aboriginal^#
	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs	N	%	Mean	95% CIs
Risk
Age at diagnosis	289	100.0%	58.4	56.5–60.3	390	100.0%	57.8	56.2–59.3	155	100.0%	55.5	53.2–57.8	132	100.0%	57.9	55.4–60.5	333	100.0%	58.1	56.4–59.8	255	100.0%	59.8	57.9–61.7
LYAR			30.4	28.7–32.2			30.9	29.5–32.4			32.8	30.7–34.9			30.7	28.4–33.0			30.6	29.1–32.1			29.1	27.4–30.8
Loss
Cancer deaths*	101	34.9%	65.9	63.0–68.9	100	25.6%	64.9	61.6–68.2	93	60.0%	58.9	56.1–61.7	59	44.7%	63.1	59.6–66.7	267	80.2%	60.8	59.1–62.6	181	71.0%	63.2	61.1–65.2
YLL_cancer			8.3	6.7–9.9			6.3	5.0–7.6			17.8	15.1–20.6			11.6	9.0–14.2			22.5	20.8–24.3			18.5	16.6–20.4
Fraction of loss: risk
FLYLAD_cancer			0.30	0.25–0.35			0.22	0.18–0.26			0.56	0.49–0.64			0.41	0.33–0.49			0.77	0.73–0.81			0.68	0.62–0.73

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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