Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of patients by cancer site.
Variable | Breast | Colorectal | Lung | Prostate | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 8,639 | N = 5,912 | N = 5,737 | N = 1,763 | |||||
Freq. | % | Freq. | % | Freq. | % | Freq. | % | |
Age group (at diagnosis) | ||||||||
15–44 | 1,537 | 17.8 | 151 | 2.6 | 83 | 1.4 | 2 | 0.1 |
45–54 | 1,978 | 22.9 | 502 | 8.5 | 381 | 6.6 | 53 | 3.0 |
55–64 | 1,556 | 18.0 | 1,222 | 20.7 | 1,285 | 22.4 | 338 | 19.2 |
65–74 | 1,461 | 16.9 | 1,818 | 30.8 | 1,976 | 34.4 | 668 | 37.9 |
75 and above | 2,107 | 24.4 | 2,219 | 37.5 | 2,012 | 35.1 | 702 | 39.8 |
Sex | ||||||||
Male | 0 | 0.0 | 3,219 | 54.4 | 3,382 | 59.0 | 2,807 | 100.0 |
Female | 8,639 | 100.0 | 2,693 | 45.6 | 2,355 | 41.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Ethnicity | ||||||||
White | 6,636 | 76.8 | 4,736 | 80.1 | 4,323 | 75.4 | 1,347 | 76.4 |
Black | 74 | 0.9 | 36 | 0.6 | 12 | 0.2 | 25 | 1.4 |
Asian | 91 | 1.1 | 34 | 0.6 | 20 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.6 |
Mixed | 14 | 0.2 | 6 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 |
Other | 92 | 1.1 | 26 | 0.4 | 37 | 0.6 | 11 | 0.6 |
Unknown | 1,732 | 20.0 | 1,074 | 18.2 | 1,344 | 23.4 | 367 | 20.8 |
Region | ||||||||
London | 929 | 10.8 | 565 | 9.6 | 558 | 9.7 | 184 | 10.4 |
North East | 157 | 1.8 | 128 | 2.2 | 188 | 3.3 | 26 | 1.5 |
North West | 1,424 | 16.5 | 1,007 | 17.0 | 1,247 | 21.7 | 278 | 15.8 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 466 | 5.4 | 284 | 4.8 | 331 | 5.8 | 90 | 5.1 |
East Midlands | 339 | 3.9 | 284 | 4.8 | 247 | 4.3 | 62 | 3.5 |
West Midlands | 1,174 | 13.6 | 797 | 13.5 | 728 | 12.7 | 212 | 12.0 |
East of England | 1,127 | 13.0 | 773 | 13.1 | 696 | 12.1 | 243 | 13.8 |
South East | 2,032 | 23.5 | 1,314 | 22.2 | 1,075 | 18.7 | 430 | 24.4 |
South West | 991 | 11.5 | 760 | 12.9 | 667 | 11.6 | 238 | 13.5 |
Level of Deprivation | ||||||||
1—least deprived | 2,242 | 26.0 | 1,391 | 23.5 | 904 | 15.8 | 500 | 28.4 |
2 | 2,252 | 26.1 | 1,550 | 26.2 | 1,172 | 20.4 | 456 | 25.9 |
3 | 1,666 | 19.3 | 1,208 | 20.4 | 1,134 | 19.8 | 350 | 19.9 |
4 | 1,462 | 16.9 | 1,055 | 17.8 | 1,271 | 22.2 | 287 | 16.3 |
5—most deprived | 1,001 | 11.6 | 699 | 11.8 | 1,237 | 21.6 | 168 | 9.5 |
Unknown | 16 | 0.2 | 9 | 0.2 | 19 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.1 |
Period of Cancer Plan Implementation | ||||||||
Prior to implementation | 1,348 | 15.6 | 847 | 14.3 | 927 | 16.2 | 217 | 12.3 |
Initialization | 1,346 | 15.6 | 2,511 | 42.5 | 2,411 | 42.0 | 735 | 41.7 |
Implementation | 5,945 | 68.8 | 2,554 | 43.2 | 2,399 | 41.8 | 811 | 46.0 |