Number of patients eligible for analysis and number excluded, for adults (15–99 years) diagnosed with one of six cancers in England during 1991–2006
| Malignancy | ICD-10 code* | Eligible for analysis | Exclusions | Patients included | ||
| Zero | ||||||
| DCO† | Survival‡ | Other§ | Number (%) | |||
| Oesophagus | C15 | 93 279 | 4960 | 1702 | 626 | 85 991 (92.2) |
| Stomach | C16 | 127 376 | 9377 | 3334 | 948 | 113 757 (89.3) |
| Colon | C18 | 284 858 | 16 732 | 6622 | 4761 | 256 743 (90.1) |
| Lung | C33, C34 | 511 491 | 45 725 | 18 574 | 4979 | 442 213 (86.5) |
| Breast (women) | C50 | 536 526 | 15 674 | 4650 | 18 773 | 497 429 (92.7) |
| Cervix | C53 | 42 764 | 965 | 316 | 624 | 40 859 (95.5) |
↵* International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision.
↵† Registration from a death certificate only (DCO).
↵‡ Date of diagnosis equal to date of death but not flagged as a DCO registration.
↵§ Aged 100 years or over at diagnosis, sex or vital status unknown, sex-site error, invalid dates, duplicate registration, synchronous tumours, previous cancer of the same organ or tissue since 1971, or missing geographical data.