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Table 1 Unstandardized EYLLs and age-standardized EYLLs of 20 cancers in men and women combined in Taiwan (standard error in parenthesis)

From: Age-standardized expected years of life lost: quantification of cancer severity

Cancer type

Number of patients

Mean age at diagnosis

Unstandardized

Age-standardized

EYLL (SE)

Rank

EYLL (SE)

Rank

Pancreas

17,994

67.6

15.2 (0.2)

3

16.6 (0.2)

1

Brain

6929

49.4

22.5 (1.5)

1

15.7 (0.3)

2

Esophagus

22,244

58.9

19.0 (0.4)

2

14.6 (0.1)

3

Bronchus and lung

109,075

68.0

13.0 (0.2)

7

14.0 (0.1)

4

Liver

112,904

64.5

14.7 (0.1)

4

14.0 (0.1)

5

Leukemia

18,120

57.4

11.9 (0.7)

8

11.0 (0.3)

6

Stomach

37,994

68.2

9.6 (0.3)

10

10.6 (0.2)

7

Ovary

12,308

52.0

13.7 (1.3)

6

10.5 (0.5)

8

Oral cavity

62,406

55.0

14.0 (0.3)

5

9.8 (0.2)

9

Nasopharynx

15,699

51.0

10.5 (0.9)

9

8.0 (0.3)

10

Non-Hodgkin

17,615

61.9

8.7 (0.7)

11

7.7 (0.3)

11

Kidney

10,812

61.2

6.9 (0.8)

12

7.1 (0.6)

12

Colon

79,349

66.6

6.3 (0.2)

14

6.5 (0.1)

13

Rectum

53,339

64.7

6.7 (0.3)

13

6.3 (0.2)

14

Bladder

20,920

69.6

5.3 (0.3)

18

5.6 (0.3)

15

Cervix uteri

16,665

57.4

5.9 (0.3)

16

5.5 (0.2)

16

Corpus uteri

17,336

54.3

5.4 (0.9)

17

5.1 (0.4)

17

Female breast

96,204

53.9

6.0 (0.5)

15

4.3 (0.2)

18

Prostate

43,320

73.2

2.8 (0.2)

19

3.4 (0.5)

19

Thyroid

26,081

48.4

2.1 (1.5)

20

3.0 (0.8)

20

All cancers irrespective of types

903,935

62.3

9.8 (0.1)

8.9 (0.1)