Table 2.

Characteristics of included cancer patients according to vital status

	Total	Death (2013–2016)
		No	Yes
TOTAL (N, row %)	313,059 (100%)	226,695 (72%)	86,364 (28%)
Palliative Care access (2013–2016)
No	259,622 (83%)	221,723 (98%)	37,899 (44%)
Yes	53,437 (17%)	4972 (2%)	48,465 (56%)
Cancer stage in 2013
In situ	10,910 (4%)	10,432 (5%)	478 (1%)
Invasive	210,514 (67%)	164,098 (72%)	46,416 (54%)
Node involvement	17,322 (5%)	12,358 (5%)	4964 (6%)
Metastatic	39,767 (13%)	7426 (4%)	32,341 (37%)
Non-attributable%	34,546 (11%)	32,381 (14%)	2165 (2%)

Table legend. ^% Cancer stage which could not be characterized under the ICD-10 classification