Table 1.

Numbers of hospital and general practice records examined of women with breast cancer diagnosed in 1992 and 1993 and living in affluent or deprived areas

	Affluent (n=158)	Deprived (n=263)	Total (n=421)
Hospital:
Records requested	158	263	421
Records seen	157	260	417
Diagnosis of primary breast cancer	146	220	366
Diagnosis of locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer	10*	40	50
General practice:
Records requested†	134	193	327
Records seen	110 (82%)	168 (87%)	278 (85%)

^*One woman presented with breast cancer and ovarian cancer simultaneously and is omitted from table. 

^†39 records were not requested because the women had moved out of the area or their general practitioner was unknown.