Table 2.

Tumour stage distribution for patients diagnosed via a primary care route shown for seven cancer types and total

	Before		During		After		P-valuea	CPP-referred		Non-CPP-referred		P-valueb
	n	%	n	%	n	%		n	%	n	%
Colorectal cancer (n= 1985)
Local	86	30.4	340	29.0	201	32.0		71	31.7	130	32.1
Regional	67	23.7	279	23.8	176	28.0		67	29.9	109	26.9
Distant	63	22.3	245	29.4	166	26.4	0.874c	62	27.7	104	25.7	0.847c
Unknown	60	21.2	202	17.2	82	13.0		23	10.3	59	14.6
Missing	7	2.5	7	0.6	4	0.6	0.003d	1	0.4	3	0.7	0.569d
Lung cancer (n= 1799)
Local	51	18.2	184	18.1	68	13.6		27	13.4	41	13.7
Regional	53	18.9	167	16.4	97	19.4		41	20.3	56	18.7
Distant	149	53.2	630	61.9	322	64.3	0.055c	132	65.3	190	63.5	0.946c
Unknown	23	8.2	36	3.5	14	2.8		2	1.0	12	4.0
Missing	4	1.4	1	0.1	0	0.0	<0.001d	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.244d
Malignant melanoma (n= 764)
Local	84	67.2	277	68.7	175	74.2		60	73.2	115	74.7
Regional	10	8.0	39	9.7	21	8.9		8	9.8	13	8.4
Distant	9	7.2	15	3.7	7	3.0	0.319c	3	3.7	4	2.6	0.853c
Unknown	18	14.4	65	16.1	33	14.0		11	13.4	22	14.3
Missing	4	3.2	7	1.7	0	0.0	0.159d	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.950d
Head and neck cancer (n= 514)
Local	25	33.8	96	36.9	71	39.4		16	41.0	55	39.0
Regional	38	51.4	130	50.0	65	36.1		18	46.2	47	33.3
Distant	2	2.7	11	4.2	6	3.3	0.347c	1	2.6	5	3.5	0.704c
Unknown	2	2.7	18	6.9	37	20.6		4	10.3	33	23.4
Missing	7	9.5	5	1.9	1	0.6	<0.001d	0	0.0	1	0.7	0.360d
Upper gastrointestinal cancer (n= 1091)
Local	32	17.3	81	14.2	52	15.5		13	15.5	39	15.5
Regional	32	17.3	124	21.8	63	18.8		19	22.6	44	17.5
Distant	70	37.8	248	43.5	147	43.8	0.536c	35	41.7	112	44.4	0.623c
Unknown	43	23.2	108	18.9	72	21.4		17	20.2	55	21.8
Missing	8	4.3	9	1.6	2	0.6	0.057d	0	0.0	2	0.8	0.782d
Gynaecological cancer (n= 875)
Local	95	67.4	308	63.6	165	66.0		38	59.4	127	68.3
Regional	17	12.1	48	9.9	24	9.6		10	15.6	14	7.5
Distant	15	10.6	61	12.6	38	15.2	0.742c	11	17.2	27	14.5	0.136c
Unknown	8	5.7	59	12.2	22	8.8		4	6.3	18	9.7
Missing	6	4.3	8	1.7	1	0.4	0.049d	1	1.6	0	0.0	0.108d
Urinary system cancer (n= 697)
Local	79	69.3	244	64.4	136	66.7		47	61.0	89	70.1
Regional	2	1.8	20	5.3	12	5.9		6	7.8	6	4.7
Distant	22	19.3	84	22.2	33	16.2	0.241c	13	16.9	20	15.7	0.526c
Unknown	8	7.0	21	5.5	22	10.8		10	13.0	12	9.4
Missing	3	2.6	10	2.6	1	0.5	0.084d	1	1.3	0	0.0	0.463d
All cancers (n= 7725)
Local	452	37.6	1530	36.5	868	37.2		272	35.3	596	38.1
Regional	219	18.2	807	19.3	458	19.6		168	21.8	289	18.5
Distant	330	27.5	1294	30.9	719	30.8	0.494c	257	33.3	462	29.5	0.067c
Unknown	162	13.5	509	12.2	282	12.1		71	9.2	211	13.5
Missing	39	3.2	47	1.1	9	0.4	<0.001d	3	0.4	6	0.4	0.006d

^aTest for differences in tumour stage distribution across time.

^bTest for differences in tumour stage distribution between CPP-referred and non-CPP-referred patients.

^cMissing and unknown stage excluded.

^dMissing and unknown stage included.

CPP = cancer patient pathway.