Perception of cancer in patients diagnosed with the most common gastrointestinal cancers

BMC Palliative Care

Table 1 Characteristics of patients

	Total		Pancreas		Stomach		Large intestine
Feature	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	λ	df	p
Gender
woman	168	44.4	24	52.2	45	48.4	99	41.4	2.58	2	.276
man	210	55.6	22	47.8	48	51.6	140	58.6
Education
basic	42	11.1	4	8.7	11	11.8	27	11.3	5.33	8	.722
vocational	99	26.2	12	26.1	22	23.7	65	27.2
secondary	140	37.0	14	30.4	33	35.5	93	38.9
higher	96	25.4	16	34.8	27	29.0	53	22.2
No data	1	0.03	0	.0	0	.0	1	.4
Place of residence
village	69	18.3	5	10.9	19	20.4	45	18.8	21.43	10	.018
city of up to 20,000 inhabitants	48	12.7	8	17.4	9	9.7	31	13.0
city of up to 50,000 inhabitants	44	11.6	3	6.5	5	5.4	36	15.1
city of up to 100,000 inhabitants	47	12.4	10	21.7	10	10.8	27	11.3
city up to 500,000 inhabitants	36	9.5	8	17.4	12	12.9	16	6.7
city over 500,000 inhabitants	134	35.4	12	26.1	38	40.9	84	35.1
Average monthly income
no data	4	1.1	0	.0	0	.0	4	1.7	11.01	12	.528
below PLN 500	7	1.9	1	2.2	3	3.2	3	1.3
PLN 501–1000	85	22.5	8	17.4	23	24.7	54	22.6
PLN 1001–1500	114	30.2	14	30.4	22	23.7	78	32.6
PLN 1501–2000	87	23.0	12	26.1	19	20.4	56	23.4
over PLN 2000	81	21.4	11	23.9	26	28.0	44	18.4
Professional status
working person	135	35.7	20	43.5	36	38.7	79	33.1	6.68	8	.571
student	5	1.3	0	.0	3	3.2	2	.8
pensioner	213	56.3	23	50.0	49	52.7	141	59.0
housekeeper	18	4.8	2	4.3	3	3.2	13	5.4
unemployed	7	1.9	1	2.2	2	2.2	4	1.7
Marital status
single	15	4.0	3	6.5	4	4.3	8	3.3	3.95	6	.684
married	271	71.7	29	63.0	65	69.9	177	74.1
widow / widower	65	17.2	9	19.6	19	20.4	37	15.5
divorced / divorcee	27	7.1	5	10.9	5	5.4	17	7.1
The presence of metastasis
Yes	139	36.8	23	50.0	29	31.2	87	36.4	4.63	2	.099
No	239	63.2	23	50.0	64	68.8	152	63.6
Type of treatment
chemotherapy	98	52.4	25	54.3	45	48.4	128	53.6	.80	2	.671
radiotherapy	74	19.6	15	32.6	21	22.6	38	15.9	7.02	2	.030
targeted treatment	29	7.7	10	21.7	14	15.1	5	2.1	29.11	2	.001

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