Table 4.

Range of percentage of eligible patients that were DCO registrations across cancer networks (minimum and maximum presented), Spearman rank correlation with 1-year relative survival, by cancer, calendar period of diagnosis and sex

		1991–5				1996–2000				2001–6
Cancer	Sex	Minimum	Maximum	r	p value	Minimum	Maximum	r	p value	Minimum	Maximum	r	p value
Oesophagus	Men	1.3	26.5	0.298	0.124	0.0	12.9	0.402	0.034	0.0	7.0	0.210	0.283
	Women	1.4	24.8	0.143	0.468	0.2	16.6	0.224	0.251	0.0	8.1	0.228	0.244
Stomach	Men	3.3	30.4	0.568	0.002	0.0	18.5	0.226	0.247	0.0	9.4	0.066	0.740
	Women	3.5	37.4	0.585	0.001	0.2	22.4	0.067	0.734	0.0	13.4	−0.078	0.694
Colon	Men	1.3	23.3	0.525	0.004	0.2	14.4	0.308	0.111	0.0	7.5	0.179	0.362
	Women	2.9	28.4	0.545	0.003	0.2	16.3	0.438	0.020	0.0	8.7	0.246	0.207
Lung	Men	4.4	35.9	0.656	<0.001	0.2	19.5	0.324	0.093	0.0	15.1	0.068	0.731
	Women	3.5	36.1	0.742	<0.001	0.4	20.8	0.232	0.235	0.0	15.9	0.278	0.152
Breast	Women	0.6	13.1	0.363	0.058	0.1	7.2	0.216	0.269	0.0	4.0	−0.077	0.696
Cervix	Women	0.6	13.2	0.152	0.439	0.0	7.0	0.041	0.836	0.0	4.2	−0.037	0.853

DCO, death certificate only.