Table 5

Main cancer diagnoses within 1 year of the index GP visit

Features		Main cancer types for patients who did not receive an urgent referral			Main cancer types for patients who did receive an urgent referral
Features		Cancer type	N	Percentage of patients diagnosed with cancer*	Cancer type	N	Percentage of patients diagnosed with cancer*
Anaemia	1	Colorectal cancer	55	5.5%	Colorectal cancer	44	16.9%
	2	Oesophagogastric cancer	12	1.2%	Oesophagogastric cancer	5	1.9%
	3	Breast cancer	7	0.7%	Prostate cancer	3	1.1%
		Total number of diagnoses†	98	9.7%	Total number of diagnoses†	64	24.5%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	96	9.5%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	62	23.8%
Rectal bleeding	1	Colorectal cancer	159	1.5%	Colorectal cancer	148	6.4%
	2	Prostate cancer	41	0.4%	Breast cancer	11	0.5%
	3	Breast cancer	21	0.2%	Anal cancer	10	0.4%
		Total number of diagnoses†	316	2.9%	Total number of diagnoses†	205	8.9%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	299	2.8%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	200	8.6%
Dysphagia	1	Oesophagogastric cancer	108	1.6%	Oesophagogastric cancer	53	3.8%
	2	Breast cancer	19	0.3%	Lip, oral cavity and pharynx cancer	10	0.7%
	3	Lung cancer	14	0.2%	Lung cancer	7	0.5%
		Total number of diagnoses†	212	3.1%	Total number of diagnoses†	89	6.4%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	209	3.1%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	87	6.3%

Breast lump	1	Breast cancer	179	3.5%	Breast cancer	1138	10.3%
	2	Melanoma	4	0.1%	Colorectal cancer	9	0.1%
	3	Colorectal cancer	2	0.0%	Lung cancer	6	0.1%
		Total number of diagnoses†	194	3.8%	Total number of diagnoses†	1184	10.8%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	191	3.7%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	1162	10.6%
Haematuria	1	Bladder cancer	66	1.6%	Bladder cancer	139	5.6%
	2	Prostate cancer	54	1.3%	Prostate cancer	54	2.2%
	3	Kidney cancer	24	0.6%	Kidney cancer	40	1.6%
		Total number of diagnoses†	209	5.2%	Total number of diagnoses†	289	11.6%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	200	5.0%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	268	10.8%
Post-menopausal bleeding	1	Uterine cancer	38	2.9%	Uterine cancer	134	6.0%
	2	Breast cancer	5	0.4%	Ovarian cancer	11	0.5%
	3	Ovarian cancer	2	0.2%	Breast cancer	9	0.4%
		Total number of diagnoses†	53	4.0%	Total number of diagnoses†	179	8.1%
		Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	52	3.9%	Total number of patients diagnosed with cancer	171	7.7%

This table was created by the authors.
*Percentage of cancer diagnoses compared with the number of patients who received or did not receive an urgent referral.
†Some patients received more than one separate cancer diagnosis within 1 year of their GP visit with a feature of interest.
GP, general practitioner.