Age and gender of survey participants providing free-text comments by Cancer Group
| Breast (n=290) | Colorectal (n=258) | Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (n=253) | Prostate (n=255) | Total (n=1056) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | n | Per cent | n | Per cent | n | Per cent | n | Per cent | n | Per cent |
| Sex | ||||||||||
| Male | 1 | <0.1 | 143 | 13.5 | 138 | 13.1 | 255 | 24.1 | 537 | 50.9 |
| Female | 289 | 27.3 | 115 | 10.8 | 115 | 10.8 | 0 | 0 | 519 | 49.1 |
| Age | ||||||||||
| Under 50 | 42 | 3.9 | 11 | 1.0 | 34 | 3.2 | 1 | <0.1 | 88 | 8.3 |
| 50–64 | 120 | 11.3 | 59 | 5.6 | 81 | 7.7 | 44 | 4.2 | 304 | 28.8 |
| 65–74 | 77 | 7.3 | 83 | 7.8 | 69 | 6.5 | 108 | 10.2 | 337 | 31.9 |
| 75+ | 51 | 4.8 | 105 | 9.9 | 69 | 6.5 | 102 | 9.7 | 327 | 30.9 |
| Time from diagnosis (years) | ||||||||||
| 1 | 71 | 24.4 | 57 | 21.9 | 68 | 26.8 | 69 | 27.0 | 265 | 25.1 |
| 2 | 70 | 24.1 | 68 | 26.3 | 67 | 26.4 | 67 | 26.2 | 272 | 25.8 |
| 3 | 67 | 23.1 | 69 | 26.7 | 63 | 24.9 | 50 | 19.6 | 249 | 23.6 |
| 5 | 82 | 28.3 | 64 | 24.6 | 55 | 21.7 | 69 | 27.0 | 270 | 25.5 |
Survey participants who provided comments to the text box (n=1056) represented 32% of all survey participants (n=4992).