Table 1.
Types of cancer in the sample
| Cancer type | Total sample N = 7509 | Women n = 3863 | Men n = 3646 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Haematological cancer / malignancies | 1523 | 20.3 | 726 | 18.8 | 797 | 21.9 |
| Solid tumour | 5986 | 79.7 | 3137 | 81.2 | 2849 | 78.1 |
| Breast | 1194 | 15.9 | 1166 | 30.2 | 28 | 0.8 |
| Lung | 1069 | 14.2 | 480 | 12.4 | 589 | 16.2 |
| Soft tissue | 495 | 6.6 | 235 | 6.1 | 260 | 7.1 |
| Pancreas | 490 | 6.5 | 223 | 5.8 | 267 | 7.3 |
| Colon/rectum | 465 | 6.2 | 177 | 4.6 | 288 | 7.9 |
| Head & neck | 418 | 5.6 | 126 | 3.3 | 292 | 8.0 |
| Brain | 390 | 5.2 | 189 | 4.9 | 201 | 5.5 |
| Stomach/oesophagus | 302 | 4.0 | 85 | 2.2 | 217 | 6.0 |
| Kidney/urinary tract/bladder | 282 | 3.7 | 81 | 2.1 | 201 | 5.5 |
| Female genital organs | 231 | 3.1 | 231 | 6.0 | – | – |
| Prostate | 148 | 2.0 | – | – | 148 | 4.1 |
| Testis | 120 | 1.6 | – | – | 120 | 3.3 |
| Hepatobiliary | 114 | 1.5 | 39 | 1.0 | 75 | 2.1 |
| Melanoma | 87 | 1.2 | 29 | 0.8 | 58 | 1.6 |
| Thyroid | 82 | 1.1 | 37 | 1.0 | 45 | 1.2 |
| Other solid | 99 | 1.3 | 39 | 1.0 | 60 | 1.6 |