Table 3.
Proportion of patients diagnosed with colorectal adenocarcinoma in 2010–12 that received resectional surgery by age, sex, and disease stage
|
Colon tumours |
Rectal tumours |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | England | Norway | Sweden | Denmark | England | Norway | Sweden | ||
| Age group, years | |||||||||
| 18–54 | 463 (70·2%) | 4233 (74·3%) | 495 (75·5%) | 712 (82·5%) | 371 (77·1%) | 2065 (66·4%) | 248 (71·7%) | 465 (74·3%) | |
| 55–64 | 1091 (73·7%) | 8951 (75·7%) | 990 (73·6%) | 1442 (80·3%) | 705 (75·4%) | 4083 (68·8%) | 499 (73·5%) | 860 (78·0%) | |
| 65–74 | 2077 (73·1%) | 15 541 (76·2%) | 1844 (75·5%) | 2999 (82·1%) | 1072 (71·4%) | 5733 (68·6%) | 664 (70·2%) | 1439 (75·7%) | |
| 75–84 | 1818 (70·8%) | 14 834 (67·6%) | 1974 (73·9%) | 3255 (83·3%) | 698 (63·1%) | 3962 (54·4%) | 510 (63·0%) | 1090 (69·0%) | |
| 85–99 | 591 (58·0%) | 4244 (42·4%) | 720 (58·7%) | 1174 (74·9%) | 136 (37·2%) | 701 (24·1%) | 143 (43·2%) | 252 (42·8%) | |
| Sex | |||||||||
| Men | 2917 (70·1%) | 25 649 (68·8%) | 2925 (71·6%) | 4711 (80·2%) | 1843 (69·0%) | 10 820 (61·1%) | 1239 (67·5%) | 2427 (70·9%) | |
| Women | 3123 (70·9%) | 22 154 (68·0%) | 3098 (72·9%) | 4871 (82·4%) | 1139 (66·2%) | 5724 (57·8%) | 825 (64·7%) | 1679 (70·7%) | |
| Disease stage at diagnosis | |||||||||
| Stage I | 752 (89·6%) | 6916 (93·3%) | 836 (86·0%) | 1328 (90·8%) | 741 (93·4%) | 5100 (89·9%) | 605 (85·8%) | 1122 (90·0%) | |
| Stage II | 2528 (92·8%) | 16 438 (93·8%) | 2189 (88·2%) | 3541 (97·1%) | 928 (89·9%) | 3958 (78·9%) | 556 (84·4%) | 1145 (90·6%) | |
| Stage III | 1849 (90·8%) | 15 555 (90·1%) | 1688 (87·4%) | 3282 (95·5%) | 900 (84·7%) | 5289 (70·3%) | 539 (83·6%) | 1361 (87·7%) | |
| Stage IV | 882 (39·1%) | 6263 (39·9%) | 1158 (55·6%) | 1356 (50·8%) | 307 (32·8%) | 1293 (25·7%) | 331 (47·4%) | 376 (29·1%) | |
| Unknown stage | 29 (4·1%) | 2631 (21·9%) | 152 (17·4%) | 75 (13·2%) | 106 (18·6%) | 904 (20·7%) | 33 (8·2%) | 102 (23·1%) | |
| Total | 6040 (70·5%) | 47 803 (68·4%) | 6023 (72·2%) | 9582 (81·3%) | 2982 (67·9%) | 16 544 (59·9%) | 2064 (66·3%) | 4106 (70·8%) | |
Data are n (%). Resectional surgery defined as surgery to remove the primary tumour within 9 months of diagnosis, excluding diagnostic and palliative procedures.