Table 2.
Newspaper cancer site | Magazine cancer site | Television cancer site |
---|---|---|
% of all sites coded (n) | % of all sites coded (n) | % of all sites coded (n) |
Breast | Breast | Breast |
29.6% (126) | 25.0% (9) | 27.1% (16) |
Colon | Prostate | Prostate |
11.3% (48) | 22.2% (8) | 16.9% (10) |
Prostate | Cervical, Colon (tie) | Brain |
9.6% (41) | 11.1% (4) | 13.6% (8) |
Lung | Lung, Skin (tie) | Skin |
8.7% (37) | 8.3% (3) | 11.9% (7) |
Brain | Lymphoma, Leukemia (tie) | Lung, Stomach (tie) |
7.0% (30) | 5.6% (2) | 6.8% (4) |
Leukemia | Testicular | Leukemia |
6.3% (27) | 2.8% (1) | 5.1% (3) |
Pancreatic | -- | Bone, Colon, Head & neck, |
3.3% (14) | Oral, Testicular (tie) | |
Pharyngeal | -- | 1.7% (1) |
3.1% (13) | ||
Cervical | -- | -- |
2.8% (12) | ||
Bone, Liver, Lymphoma (tie) | -- | -- |
2.6% (11) | ||
Total | Total | Total |
89.5% (381) | 100.0% (36) | 100.0% (59) |
Note: Other cancer sites accounted for the remaining 10.5% of newspaper stories.