Table 2.

The three most common cancer sites in males and females with both microcytosis and anaemia and microcytosis only, the proportion of the group without cancer, and the proportion with cancer at each site

	Male		Female
	Microcytosis and anaemia, N = 2162, n (%)	Microcytosis only, N = 2637, n (%)	Microcytosis and anaemia, N = 2433, n (%)	Microcytosis only, N = 5055, n (%)
	No cancer, 1950 (90.2)	No cancer, 2551 (96.7)	No cancer, 2335 (96.0)	No cancer, 4954 (98.0)
1	Colorectal, 56 (2.6)	Prostate, 27 (1.0)	Colorectal, 34 (1.4)	Colorectal, 14 (0.3)
2	Prostate, 28 (1.3)	Lung, 15 (0.6)	Breast, 10 (0.4)	Lung, 14 (0.3)
3	Lung, 28 (1.3)	Colorectal, 9 (0.3)	Lung, 10 (0.4)	Breast, 13 (0.3)