Table 3. Awareness of cancer symptoms and age-related risk of cancer.
| |
Number of symptoms recognised out of 11 (95% CI) (mean adjusted for age and sex) |
Knew that 70-year olds most likely to be diagnosed with cancer (rather than 30-year olds, 50-year olds or people of any age) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%)a | OR (95% CI)b | ||
| UK | 8.22 (8.14–8.30) | 747/6839 (13.6) | 1.00 (Reference) |
| England | 8.23 (8.13–8.33) | 285/2384 (13.8) | |
| Northern Ireland | 8.53 (8.43–8.62) | 218/2267 (10.7) | |
| Wales |
8.21 (8.12–8.31) |
244/2268 (11.3) |
|
| Denmark |
8.35 (8.26–8.44) |
481/1962 (24.8) |
2.15 (1.83–2.53) |
| Norway |
8.49 (8.40–8.58) |
576/1981 (28.7) |
2.63 (2.25–3.08) |
| Sweden |
7.71 (7.62–7.81) |
752/2015 (37.8) |
4.05 (3.48–4.72) |
| Australia | 8.34 (8.27–8.41) | 563/3894 (15.5) | 1.18 (1.01–1.37) |
| New South Wales | 8.37 (8.27–8.47) | 254/1956 (13.8) | |
| Victoria |
8.29 (8.18–8.40) |
309/1938 (17.9) |
|
| Canada | 8.70 (8.60–8.81) | 248/2045 (13.3) | 1.02 (0.83–1.24) |
Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; OR=odds ratio. Means, percentages and odds ratios for all UK countries combined, both Australian states combined and all Canadian provinces combined are weighted for unequal sampling fraction by country (UK), state (Australia) or province (Canada).
All means, percentages and odds ratios are weighted for different probabilities of selection by household size.
a
Directly age–sex standardised using European Standard Population.
b
Adjusted for age and sex.