Table 1.
Characteristics of patients diagnosed with head and neck cancer, 2009–2013
| Deprivation Level | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients | Least Deprived | 2 | 3 | 4 | Most Deprived | ||
| Number of patients | 20,821 | 3198 | 3148 | 3287 | 4916 | 6272 | |
| Alive at end of follow-up–no. (%) | 10,959 (52.6) | 1853 (57.9) | 1731 (55.0) | 1800 (54.8) | 2528 (51.4) | 3047 (48.6) | |
| Mean age at diagnosis (SD) | 60.9 (10.3) | 61.7 (10.4) | 61.4 (10.1) | 61.7 (10.4) | 60.8 (10.2) | 59.8 (10.3) | |
| Gender (%) | |||||||
| Male | 77.0 | 75.5 | 75.5 | 74.4 | 77.4 | 79.7 | |
| Female | 23.0 | 24.5 | 24.5 | 25.6 | 22.6 | 20.3 | |
| Average number of bedsa,b (SD) | 20.3 (23.1) | 23.6 (35.9) | 19.1 (17.5) | 15.9 (16.5) | 21.0 (20.9) | 21.1 (21.4) | |
| Stage at Diagnosis (%) | |||||||
| Stage I | 14.5 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 14.3 | |
| Stage II | 11.1 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 11.2 | 11.1 | 11.2 | |
| Stage III | 15.2 | 14.4 | 16.4 | 15.8 | 14.8 | 15.0 | |
| Stage IV | 54.6 | 53.6 | 51.3 | 54.4 | 55.5 | 57.6 | |
| Missing | 4.6 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 1.9 | |
| Treatment (%) | |||||||
| Minor | 17.1 | 8.7 | 13.1 | 16.7 | 20.6 | 20.8 | |
| Advanced | 82.9 | 91.3 | 86.9 | 83.3 | 79.4 | 79.2 | |
| Site (%) | |||||||
| HPV-unrelated | 58.2 | 55.8 | 58.5 | 57.0 | 58.2 | 60.0 | |
| HPV-related | 41.8 | 44.2 | 41.5 | 43.0 | 41.8 | 40.0 | |
SD Standard deviation, HPV Human papillomavirus
aThe number of hospital beds was restricted to those in the oral and maxillofacial, Ear-Nose-Throat (ENT), and radiotherapy departments
bPer 100,000 population