Patient characteristics stratified by successive 5-year and 20-year (1988–2007) diagnostic periods and sex
| 1988–1992 | 1993–1997 | 1998–2002 | 2003–2007 | Total (1988–2007) | ||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| No. (%) | 5868 (71.2) | 2377 (28.8) | 6360 (67.4) | 3075 (33.6) | 6555 (63.4) | 3787 (36.6) | 7196 (59.5) | 4900 (40.5) | 25 979 (65) | 14 139 (35) |
| Histology | ||||||||||
| Adenocarcinoma | 1202 (20) | 691 (29) | 1404 (22) | 919 (30) | 1624 (25) | 1184 (31) | 1919 (27) | 1632 (33) | 6149 (24) | 4426 (31) |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 1937 (33) | 418 (18) | 1887 (30) | 479 (16) | 1662 (25) | 550 (15) | 1708 (24) | 722 (15) | 7194 (28) | 2169 (15) |
| Large cell carcinoma | 294 (5) | 125 (5) | 326 (5) | 148 (5) | 321 (5) | 204 (5) | 279 (4) | 166 (3) | 1220 (5) | 643 (5) |
| Small cell carcinoma | 1168 (20) | 542 (23) | 1087 (17) | 651 (21) | 1097 (17) | 739 (20) | 1059 (15) | 908 (19) | 4411 (17) | 2840 (20) |
| Carcinoma NOS | 1226 (21) | 551 (23) | 1589 (25) | 808 (26) | 1728 (26) | 994 (26) | 2069 (29) | 1314 (27) | 6612 (25) | 3667 (26) |
| Sarcoma/carcinoid tumor | 41 (1) | 50 (2) | 67 (1) | 70 (2) | 123 (2) | 116 (3) | 162 (2) | 158 (3) | 393 (2) | 394 (3) |
| Stage | ||||||||||
| Localised disease | 2326 (40) | 876 (37) | 2407 (38) | 1176 (38) | 1878 (29) | 1081 (29) | 1772 (25) | 1337 (27) | 8383 (32) | 4470 (32) |
| Regional disease | 1127 (19) | 468 (20) | 1384 (22) | 622 (20) | 1624 (25) | 871 (23) | 2107 (29) | 1281 (26) | 11046 (43) | 6265 (44) |
| Metastatic disease | 2323 (40) | 999 (42) | 2476 (39) | 1230 (40) | 2991 (46) | 1805 (48) | 3256 (45) | 2231 (46) | 6242 (24) | 3242 (23) |
| Unknown | 92 (1) | 34 (1) | 93 (1) | 47 (2) | 62 (1) | 30 (1) | 61 (1) | 51 (1) | 308 (1) | 162 (1) |
| Age | ||||||||||
| 0–49 | 273 (5) | 175 (7) | 319 (5) | 273 (9) | 287 (4) | 243 (6) | 237 (3) | 232 (5) | 1118 (4) | 923 (7) |
| 50–59 | 744 (13) | 362 (15) | 824 (13) | 516 (17) | 999 (15) | 758 (20) | 1027 (14) | 857 (17) | 3594 (14) | 2493 (18) |
| 60–69 | 2036 (35) | 804 (34) | 1972 (31) | 915 (30) | 1714 (26) | 1020 (27) | 2019 (28) | 1396 (28) | 7741 (30) | 4135 (29) |
| 70–79 | 2211 (38) | 748 (31) | 2429 (38) | 1017 (33) | 2558 (39) | 1271 (34) | 2538 (35) | 1621 (33) | 9736 (37) | 4657 (33) |
| 80 and over | 604 (10) | 288 (12) | 815 (13) | 354 (12) | 996 (15) | 495 (13) | 1375 (19) | 794 (16) | 3790 (15) | 1931 (14) |
NOS, not otherwise specifed.