Table 1.

Number and adjusted proportions of emergency presentations by sociodemographic characteristic, cancer site, and year of diagnosis, stratified by GP-EP or AE-EP sub-routes (N = 554 621)

Variable	Emergency cancer presentation

	EP (all) n	GP-EP Adjusted %^a	AE-EP Adjusted %^a
Sex
Female	262 173	24.0	61.8
Male	292 448	23.0	62.9

Age, years
25–49	32 311	19.2	59.6
50–59	49 447	21.5	59.6
60–69	104 695	23.0	59.8
70–79	157 853	24.0	61.8
≥80	210 315	24.5	65.5

Social deprivation quintiles
1 least deprived	91 724	25.1	59.6
2	108 860	26.2	59.6
3	114 391	25.2	61.2
4	118 498	22.7	64.1
5 most deprived	121 148	19.1	66.6

Cancer type
Pancreatic	35 139	30.9	57.4
Ovarian	17 286	28.5	56.7
AML	12 283	28.9	54.6
ALL	1251	31.0	52.7
Colon	65 092	27.2	63.1
CUP	45 366	26.3	63.1
Gallbladder	3127	27.8	57.8
Sarcoma	3781	26.8	55.2
Oesophageal	14 505	26.3	62.6
CML	1741	26.4	58.7
Small intestinal	4746	25.9	63.1
Stomach	19 000	24.7	64.5
NHL	27 001	25.4	57.7
HL	2015	26.9	57.0
Multiple myeloma	14 349	24.2	58.3
Liver	9588	24.6	62.1
Anal	1230	24.4	62.7
Mesothelioma	7597	22.3	59.8
CLL	5694	21.3	64.8
Rectal	11 161	22.0	66.6
Bladder	15 989	20.2	63.0
Lung	128 938	20.9	66.6
Kidney	17 586	21.0	62.9
Prostate	31 485	19.3	61.1
Intracranial endocrine	149	21.6	51.1
Breast	18 199	18.7	66.3
Cervical	2565	19.6	65.6
Testicular	1456	23.2	53.2
Uterine	5528	17.4	61.6
Brain	22 361	17.2	60.2
Melanoma	2474	15.8	58.5
Thyroid	1493	14.5	57.5
Laryngeal	1904	12.3	68.7
Oropharyngeal	1221	13.4	59.2
Oral	1321	9.1	54.4

Year
2006	56 104	31.0	55.3
2007	54 190	30.5	56.2
2008	55 421	27.9	59.1
2009	55 808	26.1	60.2
2010	54 450	23.8	62.1
2011	55 488	22.0	63.9
2012	56 713	20.2	65.1
2013	56 926	18.8	66.9
2014	55 379	18.0	67.1
2015	54 142	16.8	68.2

↵a Estimated using a multinomial logistic regression model for AE-EP, GP-EP (reference outcome), and Other-EP, fitted to all patients diagnosed through EP in 2006 to 2015 (N = 554 621), where independent variables were sex, age group, deprivation group, cancer, and year of diagnosis. Proportions were predicted where each variable’s categories, for example, female and male, were forced to have the same case mix as that of the entire sample, 2006–2015. AE-EP = emergency presentation through presentation to accident and emergency. ALL = acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. AML = acute myeloid leukaemia. CLL = chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. CML = chronic myeloid leukaemia. CUP = cancer of unknown primary. GP-EP = emergency presentation through a GP referral. EP = emergency presentation HL = Hodgkin’s lymphoma. NHL = non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Other-EP = emergency presentation through routes other than through the GP or accident and emergency, for example, through referral during an inpatient admission.