Table 1 Summary statistics for the patient, the primary care and the pre-referral intervals expressed in number of days (n=10 953 patients with 28 cancers)^a

From: The relative length of the patient and the primary care interval in patients with 28 common and rarer cancers

		Patient interval (days)					Primary care interval (days)					Pre-referral interval (days)
Cancer diagnosis	N	Mean	25th Centile	50th Centile	75th Centile	90th Centile	Mean	25th Centile	50th Centile	75th Centile	90th Centile	Mean	25th Centile	50th Centile	75th Centile	90th Centile
Laryngeal	94	68	12	34.5	78	183	36	0	7	28	57	104	31	58	92	234
Oropharyngeal	146	53	8	30	61	121	22	0	5.5	27	56	75	30	48	87	136
Cervical	97	77	2	25	92	265	25	0	5	26	79	102	13	45	140	293
Oesophageal	418	40	7	21.5	46	99	26	0	5	30	71	66	20	40	80	152
Melanoma	475	69	0	21	69	234	17	0	0	7	44	86	8	31	94	317
Thyroid	80	60	2	20.5	40.5	192.5	32	0	8.5	21.5	49	91	17	35	81.5	228.5
Colorectal	1673	50	1	19	61	127	32	0	6	29	90	82	16	46	97	203
Mesothelioma	57	42	3	17	34	122	24	1	7	27	84	66	21	41	80	190
Vulval	49	59	7	17	61	122	16	0	1	7	54	76	14	31	86	284
Endometrial	319	54	1	14	59	168	21	0	1	15	51	75	6	29	83	219
Liver	53	28	0	14	39	61	32	1	11	27	73	60	14	36	61	125
Lymphoma	477	39	1	14	44	94	33	0	9	31	89	72	16	38	87	186
Ovarian	275	39	2	14	52	113	21	0	7	22	51	60	14	36	72	149
Multiple myeloma	124	44	0	13.5	31	93	56	5	20.5	62	134	100	22	46	110.5	213
Sarcoma	72	45	0	13	56.5	119	45	0	7	40.5	115	90	15	52	111	226
Testicular	112	60	2	12	67	184	15	0	1.5	16	30	75	8	24.5	94.5	212
Lung	1128	33	0	11	32	85	33	3	14	39	78	66	17	39	79	146
Small Intestine	38	43	0	10.5	75	153	26	1	10	32	90	69	12	38.5	128	184
Pancreatic	268	26	1	10	31	74	33	0	7	31.5	97	58	9	28.5	74.5	144
Stomach	187	45	0	9	38	125	46	0	12	65	134	90	15	49	126	235
Unknown primary	111	24	0	8	23	68	33	0	15	36	75	57	14	34	67	129
Brain	121	36	1	7	26	92	22	0	4	16	56	58	5	22	61	139
Breast	2124	32	1	7	27	77	6	0	0	1	7	38	2	10	31	91
Leukaemia	228	32	0	7	30	86	25	0	4	22.5	58	57	6.5	26	68	141
Prostate	1378	47	0	7	42	151	31	2	11	26	74	78	9	32	93	209
Gallbladder	40	34	0	4.5	15.5	74	41	4.5	20	39	76	75	9	31.5	73.5	304.5
Renal	207	26	0	3	21	62	35	1	13	39	108	61	8	30	71	181
Bladder	602	22	0	2	14	61	26	0	3	15	53	48	3	14	45	134

Cancers are ordered in descending order of median patient interval. Bootstrap 95% confidence intervals for all estimates are presented in Supplementary Online Material 2.
^aNote that centiles occur that are not whole numbers (non-integers) when the centile falls between two observations. In such cases the mean of the two adjacent observations is used.

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Table 1 Summary statistics for the patient, the primary care and the pre-referral intervals expressed in number of days (n=10 953 patients with 28 cancers)^a

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