Table 1.

Patient characteristics by cancer type and group.

	Patients with cancer diagnoses and non-urgent referrals	Patients with cancer diagnoses and urgent referrals	Patients without cancer diagnoses and urgent referrals	Total
Age (mean [SD])
Colorectal	71.1 (12.3)	70.4 (11.7)	63.1(14.3)	66.0 (14.0)
Lung	66.5 (11.6)	67.2 (11.0)	63.6 (13.3)	65.9 (12.0)
Ovarian	64.6 (13.4)	68.2 (11.2)	56.5 (15.8)	60.7 (15.2)
Prostate	73.1 (9.7)	70.4 (8.8)	66.3 (11.1)	70.9 (11.1)
Sex (n [%])
Colorectal
Male	97 (52)	27 (53)	142 (36%)	266
Female	90 (48)	24 (47)	251 (64%)	365
Lung
Male	153 (57)	48 (55)	80 (62)	204
Female	117 (43)	39 (45)	49 (38)	205
Ethnic group (n [%])
Colorectal
White	144 (96)	44 (100)	254 (93)	442
South Asian	4 (3)	0 (0)	15 (5)	19
Black	2 (1)	0 (0)	4 (1)	6
Other			1 (1)	1
Lung
White	151 (97)	60 (97)	69 (88)	280
South Asian	5 (3)	2 (3)	8 (10)	15
Chinese	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)	1
Ovarian
White	46 (94)	12 (100)	59 (87)	117
South Asian	3 (6)	0 (0)	8 (12)	11
Black	0 (0)	0 (0)	1 (1)	1
Prostate
White	54 (92)	29 (100)	28 (93)	111
South Asian	2 (3)	0 (0)	2 (7)	4
Black	2 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	2
Other	1 (2)	0 (0)	0 (0)	1
Marital status (n [%])
Colorectal
Divorced	9 (5)	3 (6)	27 (7)	39
Married	108 (60)	30 (60)	243 (66)	381
Single	19 (11)	5 (10)	47 (13)	71
Widowed	43 (24)	12 (24)	49 (13)	104
Lung
Divorced	14 (7)	8 (10)	7 (6)	29
Married	141 (67)	60 (77)	72 (66)	273
Single	21 (10)	4 (5)	12 (11)	37
Widowed	36 (17)	6 (8)	18 (17)	60
Ovarian
Divorced	4 (7)	1 (7)	5 (6)	10
Married	38 (69)	9 (64)	58 (75)	105
Single	5 (9)	0 (0)	4 (5)	9
Widowed	8 (15)	4 (29)	10 (13)	22
Prostate
Divorced	3 (3)	2 (5)	1 (3)	6
Married	75 (81)	36 (82)	32 (80)	143
Single	2 (2)	1 (2)	3 (8)	6
Widowed	13 (14)	5 (11)	4 (10)	22

SD = standard deviation.