Fig. 6: Risk of cancer over time by cancer stage. | British Journal of Cancer

Fig. 6: Risk of cancer over time by cancer stage.

From: The association between unexpected weight loss and cancer diagnosis in primary care: a matched cohort analysis of 65,000 presentations

Fig. 6

Univariate smoothed hazard rate and cumulative hazard by cancer stage in patients with and without unexpected weight loss. In men, 54 cancers (0.2%) were diagnosed with late-stage cancer in 25,551 men with unexpected weight loss in the first 3 months rising to 66 (0.3%) cases over the first 6 months compared with 46 (0.04%) of 10,7706 men without unexpected weight loss in the first 3 months rising to 88 (0.08%) by 6 months. In women, 37 late-stage cancers (0.1%) were diagnosed in 36,057 women with unexpected weight loss in the first 3 months rising to 52 (0.1%) over 6 months compared with 38 (0.02%) in 145,203 women without unexpected weight loss over 3 months rising to 75 (0.05%) over 6 months.

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