Table 1.
Proportions of patients with oesophagogastric cancer by the route to diagnosis
| Patients | (%) | Route to diagnosis (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General practitioner referral | Emergency admission | Other hospital | p Value | |||
| All patients | 14102 | 66 | 16 | 17 | ||
| Tumour | ||||||
| Oesophagus | 9755 | (69) | 71 | 13 | 16 | <0.001 |
| Stomach | 4347 | (31) | 56 | 24 | 19 | |
| Gender | ||||||
| Female | 4631 | (33) | 66 | 18 | 17 | =0.02 |
| Male | 9471 | (67) | 67 | 16 | 18 | |
| Age (years) | ||||||
| Under 55 | 1215 | (9) | 66 | 14 | 20 | <0.001 |
| 55–64 | 2567 | (18) | 72 | 11 | 17 | |
| 65–74 | 4093 | (29) | 69 | 13 | 19 | |
| 75–84 | 4465 | (32) | 65 | 18 | 17 | |
| 85 and over | 1762 | (12) | 58 | 30 | 12 | |
| Index of multiple deprivation | ||||||
| 1 (least) | 2498 | (18) | 70 | 14 | 16 | <0.001 |
| 2 | 2814 | (20) | 68 | 16 | 16 | |
| 3 | 2969 | (21) | 68 | 15 | 17 | |
| 4 | 2879 | (20) | 64 | 19 | 17 | |
| 5 (most) | 2942 | (21) | 62 | 18 | 20 | |
| Comorbidities | ||||||
| 0 | 7870 | (56) | 70 | 14 | 16 | <0.001 |
| 1 | 3829 | (27) | 65 | 17 | 18 | |
| 2 | 1676 | (12) | 59 | 21 | 19 | |
| 3 or more | 727 | (5) | 54 | 25 | 21 | |
| Performance status | ||||||
| 0 | 3541 | (25) | 74 | 8 | 19 | <0.001 |
| 1 | 2838 | (20) | 70 | 12 | 18 | |
| 2 | 1926 | (14) | 63 | 20 | 18 | |
| 3 or 4 | 1812 | (13) | 48 | 36 | 16 | |
| Missing | 3985 | (28) | 67 | 16 | 16 | |
| Pretreatment stage | ||||||
| 1 or 2 | 2543 | (18) | 64 | 13 | 22 | <0.001 |
| 3 | 2296 | (16) | 74 | 11 | 16 | |
| 4 | 3804 | (27) | 67 | 20 | 14 | |
| Unknown/missing | 5459 | (39) | 64 | 18 | 18 | |