Table 5. Conditional relative survival of cancer patients by site, diagnostic interval ¹ and symptom category ² .
| Cancer site / Diagnostic intervals¹ | All Patients | Alert symptoms | Non-alert symptoms | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-year Conditional Relative survival | 95% Confidence Interval | 5-year Conditional Relative survival | 95% Confidence Interval | 5-year Conditional Relative survival | 95% Confidence Interval | |||||||
| Breast | ||||||||||||
| Overall | 84.5 | 83.3 | - | 85.6 | 84.2 | 83.0 | - | 85.4 | 88.5 | 84.0 | - | 92.1 |
| < 1 week | 83.0 | 79.9 | - | 85.8 | 82.8 | 79.7 | - | 85.7 | 93.6 | 70.0 | - | 102.6 |
| 1–2 weeks | 80.8 | 78.6 | - | 83.0 | 80.9 | 78.6 | - | 83.1 | 78.5 | 60.2 | - | 90.7 |
| 3–4 weeks | 87.4 | 85.0 | - | 89.5 | 87.7 | 85.3 | - | 89.8 | 79.8 | 64.6 | - | 90.2 |
| > 1 month | 87.0 | 85.0 | - | 88.9 | 86.3 | 84.0 | - | 88.3 | 91.7 | 86.6 | - | 95.3 |
| Colorectal | ||||||||||||
| Overall | 67.1 | 64.9 | - | 69.2 | 71.2 | 67.9 | - | 74.4 | 64.0 | 61.2 | - | 66.9 |
| <1 month | 63.5 | 59.2 | - | 67.6 | 66.7 | 60.8 | - | 72.1 | 59.6 | 53.3 | - | 65.7 |
| 1–2 months | 69.8 | 64.7 | - | 74.6 | 75.3 | 68.0 | - | 81.7 | 64.5 | 57.3 | - | 71.3 |
| 3–6 months | 69.6 | 66.0 | - | 73.0 | 75.7 | 70.0 | - | 80.9 | 65.6 | 60.9 | - | 70.1 |
| >6 months | 64.7 | 59.5 | - | 69.7 | 63.2 | 52.2 | - | 73.1 | 65.2 | 59.2 | - | 70.8 |
| Lung | ||||||||||||
| Overall | 27.2 | 24.6 | - | 29.8 | 31.2 | 24.7 | - | 38.1 | 26.4 | 23.6 | - | 29.3 |
| <1 month | 27.3 | 22.2 | - | 32.8 | 27.4 | 18.2 | - | 37.5 | 27.2 | 21.0 | - | 33.8 |
| 1–2 months | 25.2 | 19.3 | - | 31.5 | 34.0 | 20.8 | - | 48.3 | 22.7 | 16.3 | - | 29.9 |
| 3–6 months | 27.8 | 23.3 | - | 32.6 | 38.4 | 23.9 | - | 53.5 | 26.5 | 21.8 | - | 31.5 |
| >6 months | 27.4 | 22.5 | - | 32.5 | 24.9 | 8.1 | - | 47.3 | 27.6 | 22.6 | - | 33.0 |
| Prostate | ||||||||||||
| Overall | 78.2 | 74.3 | - | 81.8 | 81.7 | 72.8 | - | 89.1 | 77.3 | 72.9 | - | 81.4 |
| <1 month | 64.4 | 54.4 | - | 73.7 | 73.4 | 53.9 | - | 88.6 | 60.6 | 48.7 | - | 71.7 |
| 1–2 months | 75.7 | 67.2 | - | 83.1 | 81.9 | 64.4 | - | 94.4 | 73.8 | 64.0 | - | 82.5 |
| 3–6 months | 79.4 | 73.1 | - | 85.0 | 86.0 | 69.4 | - | 97.6 | 78.1 | 71.2 | - | 84.4 |
| >6 months | 91.8 | 83.6 | - | 98.3 | 86.2 | 60.3 | - | 101.4 | 92.7 | 83.8 | - | 99.7 |
¹time between first symptom presentation in primary care and diagnosis
²symptoms were categorized as alert or non-alert based on the NICE guidelines