From: Patients who take their symptoms less seriously are more likely to have colorectal cancer
Males | Females | |||||||||||||||||
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Less | Same | More | Less | Same | More | |||||||||||||
Cancer | % | Total | Cancer | % | Total | Cancer | % | Total | Cancer | % | Total | Cancer | % | Total | Cancer | % | Total | |
Abdominal Pain | ||||||||||||||||||
Occurring weekly and present <12 months | 11 | 9.2 | 120 | 19 | 6.0 | 315 | 5 | 3.3 | 152 | 8 | 4.4 | 180 | 13 | 2.7 | 477 | 0 | 0.0 | 205 |
Everything else | 17 | 3.6 | 476 | 27 | 1.7 | 1568 | 8 | 0.9 | 915 | 13 | 2.3 | 562 | 24 | 1.4 | 1755 | 12 | 1.3 | 909 |
Bleeding | ||||||||||||||||||
Occurring weekly and present <12 months | 7 | 10.6 | 66 | 16 | 10.5 | 152 | 4 | 4.6 | 87 | 3 | 4.3 | 69 | 8 | 4.5 | 177 | 2 | 2.2 | 90 |
Occurring monthly/ occasionally and present <12 months | 6 | 8.0 | 75 | 4 | 1.5 | 261 | 5 | 3.3 | 151 | 7 | 6.1 | 115 | 5 | 1.4 | 366 | 2 | 1.1 | 176 |
Everything else | 15 | 3.3 | 455 | 26 | 1.8 | 1470 | 4 | 0.5 | 829 | 11 | 2.0 | 558 | 24 | 1.4 | 1689 | 8 | 0.9 | 848 |
Mucus | ||||||||||||||||||
Occurring weekly and present <12 months | 3 | 13.6 | 22 | 4 | 8.2 | 49 | 3 | 10.0 | 30 | 3 | 7.1 | 42 | 4 | 3.6 | 110 | 1 | 2.0 | 51 |
Everything else | 25 | 4.4 | 574 | 42 | 2.3 | 1834 | 10 | 1.0 | 1037 | 18 | 2.6 | 700 | 33 | 1.6 | 2122 | 11 | 1.0 | 1063 |
Anaemia | ||||||||||||||||||
Present | 4 | 7.4 | 54 | 4 | 7.4 | 54 | 3 | 3.8 | 79 | 6 | 5.3 | 113 | 13 | 4.7 | 275 | 2 | 1.6 | 125 |
Absent | 24 | 4.4 | 542 | 35 | 2.0 | 1754 | 10 | 1.0 | 988 | 15 | 2.4 | 629 | 24 | 1.2 | 1957 | 10 | 1.0 | 989 |
Total | 28 | 4.7 | 596 | 46 | 2.4 | 1883 | 13 | 1.2 | 1067 | 21 | 2.8 | 742 | 37 | 1.7 | 2232 | 12 | 1.1 | 1114 |