Table 1 Proportions of patients alive in November 2011, of those who took part in the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2010, and response to the survey among those sampled

From: Risk factors for delay in symptomatic presentation: a survey of cancer patients

  

Alive November 2011

Response to survey a

ICD-10

Cancer type

n

(%)

n

(%)

Included in the analysis of risk factors for delay in presentation

C43

Malignant melanoma

963

(92.3)

159

(79.9)

C50

Breast (women)

10,078

(91.1)

164

(82.4)

C67

Bladder

4,637

(89.6)

160

(80.4)

C92.1

Chronic myeloid leukaemia

218

(89.3)

159

(79.5)

C54

Body of uterus

865

(87.6)

158

(79.4)

C82–83

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

1,730

(87.5)

161

(80.9)

C53

Cervix

287

(85.2)

133

(67.2)

C61

Prostate

3,489

(84.1)

170

(85.0)

C91.1

Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

700

(82.1)

161

(80.5)

C64–66

Kidney and ureter

702

(82.0)

154

(78.6)

C19–20

Rectum

2,195

(81.4)

175

(88.4)

C18

Colon

3,039

(80.0)

166

(84.3)

C40–41, C49

Sarcoma

280

(78.9)

140

(70.7)

C90

Myeloma

1,695

(78.8)

150

(76.1)

C01–06

Oral cavity

370

(77.4)

161

(81.7)

Not included in the analysis of risk factors for delay in presentation

C91.0, C92.0

Acute leukaemia

477

(68.1)

154

(80.2)

C56

Ovary

927

(65.3)

152

(77.2)

C77–79

Secondary cancer

1,959

(60.4)

144

(74.6)

C16

Stomach

425

(55.7)

140

(73.7)

C15

Oesophagus

533

(50.5)

155

(81.2)

C34

Lung

1,230

(48.3)

142

(77.2)

C25

Pancreas

181

(38.9)

113

(71.5)

  1. aA further 88 patients died during fieldwork; these have been removed from the denominator in calculating response rates.