Table 2 Breakdown of stories over time by cancer site and newspaper genre
From: Mass media and risk factors for cancer: the under-representation of age
Time period | Cancer site | Publication genre | Total (n = 800) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tabloid (n = 180) | Mid-market (n = 418) | Serious (n = 202) | |||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
2003–4(n = 317) | Breast | 49 | 64.5 | 136 | 72.7 | 41 | 75.9 | 226 | 71.3 |
Prostate | 15 | 19.7 | 30 | 16.0 | 7 | 13.0 | 52 | 16.4 | |
Lung | 6 | 7.9 | 11 | 5.9 | 3 | 5.6 | 20 | 6.3 | |
Colorectal | 6 | 7.9 | 10 | 5.3 | 3 | 5.6 | 19 | 6.0 | |
Total | 76 | 42.2 | 187 | 44.7 | 54 | 26.7 | 317 | 39.6 | |
2013–14(n = 483) | Breast | 70 | 67.3 | 135 | 58.4 | 83 | 56.1 | 288 | 59.6 |
Prostate | 14 | 13.5 | 58 | 25.1 | 38 | 25.7 | 110 | 22.8 | |
Lung | 13 | 12.5 | 17 | 7.4 | 13 | 8.8 | 43 | 8.9 | |
Colorectal | 7 | 6.7 | 21 | 9.1 | 14 | 9.5 | 42 | 8.7 | |
Total | 104 | 57.8 | 231 | 55.3 | 148 | 73.3 | 483 | 60.4 | |
All | Breast | 119 | 66.1 | 271 | 64.8 | 124 | 61.4 | 514 | 64.3 |
Prostate | 29 | 16.1 | 88 | 21.1 | 45 | 22.3 | 162 | 20.3 | |
Lung | 19 | 10.6 | 28 | 6.7 | 16 | 7.9 | 63 | 7.9 | |
Colorectal | 13 | 7.2 | 31 | 7.4 | 17 | 8.4 | 61 | 7.6 | |
Total | 180 | 100 | 418 | 100 | 202 | 100 | 800 | 100 | |