Table 1.

The distribution of selected risk factors by time between diagnosis and major resection, early stage colorectal cancer, 1996–2009

Variable	Overall		Time from diagnosis to major resection
	N	%	Less than 25 days		25-38 days		More than 38 days
			N	%	N	%	N	%
Age group
15 – 44	921	1.98	432	2.47	276	1.99	213	1.41
45 – 54	2,744	5.90	1,083	6.18	875	6.30	786	5.21
55 – 64	8,628	18.55	3,142	17.93	2,725	19.61	2,761	18.29
65 – 74	15,507	33.34	5,604	31.98	4,700	33.83	5,203	34.47
75 and older	18,711	40.23	7,263	41.45	5,317	38.27	6,131	40.62
Gender
Male	26,105	56.13	9,360	53.41	7,826	56.33	8,919	59.09
Female	20,406	43.87	8,164	46.59	6,067	43.67	6,175	40.91
Region of residence
London	4,137	8.89	1,714	9.78	1,291	9.29	1,132	7.50
North East	4,003	8.61	1,471	8.39	1,297	9.34	1,235	8.18
North West	3,951	8.49	1,821	10.39	996	7.17	1,134	7.51
Yorkshire and the Humber	6,417	13.80	2,455	14.01	1,931	13.90	2,031	13.46
East Midlands	3,355	7.21	1,025	5.85	1,017	7.32	1,313	8.70
West Midlands	5,242	11.27	1,767	10.08	1,682	12.11	1,793	11.88
East of England	4,669	10.04	1,309	7.47	1,490	10.72	1,870	12.39
South East	7,542	16.22	2,641	15.07	2,293	16.50	2,608	17.28
South West	7,195	15.47	3,321	18.95	1,896	13.65	1,978	13.10
Ethnicity, major groups 1
White	17,909	75.68	5,580	76.20	5,757	75.38	6,572	75.51
Black	197	0.83	69	0.94	61	0.80	67	0.77
Asian	200	0.85	64	0.87	77	1.01	59	0.68
Mixed	42	0.18	20	0.27	15	0.20	7	0.08
Other Ethnic Group	109	0.46	49	0.67	27	0.35	33	0.38
Unknown	5,206	22.00	1,541	21.04	1,700	22.26	1,965	22.58
Site
Colon	29,431	63.28	12,776	72.91	8,708	62.68	7,947	52.65
Rectosigmoid	4,249	9.14	1382	7.89	1,372	9.88	1,495	9.90
Rectum	12,831	27.59	3366	19.21	3,813	27.45	5,652	37.45
Stage
A	12,135	26.09	3,263	18.62	3,789	27.27	5,083	33.68
B	34,376	73.91	14,261	81.38	10,104	72.73	10,011	66.32
Morphology
Adenocarcinoma	41,845	89.97	15,668	89.41	12,530	90.19	13,647	90.41
Mucinous adenocarcinoma	2,484	5.34	1,068	6.09	734	5.28	682	4.52
Other	2,155	4.63	775	4.42	622	4.48	758	5.02
Not otherwise specified	27	0.06	13	0.07	7	0.05	7	0.05
Grade
G1	3,159	6.79	1,319	7.53	909	6.54	931	6.17
G2	36,430	78.33	13,345	76.15	11,026	79.36	12,059	79.89
G3	4,632	9.96	1,916	10.93	1,334	9.60	1,382	9.16
G4	46	0.10	28	0.16	12	0.09	6	0.04
Unknown	2,244	4.82	916	5.23	612	4.41	716	4.74
Deprivation quintile 2
1 - least deprived	9,010	19.37	3,231	18.44	2,770	19.94	3,009	19.94
2	9,657	20.76	3,435	19.60	2,971	21.38	3,251	21.54
3	9,485	20.39	3,398	19.39	2,852	20.53	3,235	21.43
4	8,343	17.94	3,037	17.33	2,501	18.00	2,805	18.58
5 - most deprived	6,550	14.08	2,448	13.97	1,976	14.22	2,126	14.09
Unknown	3,466	7.45	1,975	11.27	823	5.92	668	4.43
Cancer plan implementation period
Prior to implementation	9,415	20.24	4,803	27.41	2,408	17.33	2,204	14.60
Initialization	17,583	37.80	6,891	39.32	5,066	36.46	5,626	37.27
Implementation	19,513	41.95	5,830	33.27	6,419	46.20	7,264	48.13

¹represents only data from 2005–2009.

²based on the income component of the 2007 Index of Multiple Deprivation.