Table 1 Treatments administered to colorectal cancer patients diagnosed during 1994–2002: numbers and percentages of all patients
From: Inequity in colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes: a population-based study
Colon | Rectum | Total | ||||
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Variable | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % |
Overall treatment a | ||||||
Surgeryb | 7591 | 79.0 | 4285 | 76.0 | 11 876 | 77.9 |
Any chemotherapy | 2807 | 29.2 | 1873 | 33.2 | 4680 | 30.7 |
Any radiotherapy | 410 | 4.3 | 1578 | 28.0 | 1988 | 13.0 |
Pre-operative treatmentc | ||||||
Chemotherapy | 45 | 0.6 | 240 | 5.6 | 285 | 2.4 |
Radiotherapy | 11 | 0.1 | 339 | 7.9 | 350 | 2.9 |
Postoperative treatmentc | ||||||
Chemotherapy | 2435 | 31.9 | 1336 | 31.0 | 3771 | 31.6 |
Radiotherapy | 227 | 3.0 | 682 | 15.8 | 909 | 7.6 |
Treatment combinations | ||||||
Surgery onlyb | 5000 | 52.0 | 2419 | 42.9 | 7419 | 48.7 |
Chemotherapy only | 304 | 3.2 | 123 | 2.2 | 427 | 2.8 |
Radiotherapy only | 41 | 0.4 | 174 | 3.1 | 215 | 1.4 |
Surgery and radiotherapy | 116 | 1.2 | 302 | 5.4 | 418 | 2.7 |
Surgery and chemotherapy | 2250 | 23.4 | 648 | 11.5 | 2898 | 19.0 |
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy | 28 | 0.3 | 186 | 3.3 | 214 | 1.4 |
Surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy | 225 | 2.3 | 916 | 16.3 | 1141 | 7.5 |
No cancer-directed treatment | 1649 | 17.2 | 868 | 15.4 | 2517 | 16.5 |