Table 4 Mention and Discussion of risk factors for cancer in newspaper articles
From: Mass media and risk factors for cancer: the under-representation of age
|  | 2003–4 (n = 317) | 2013–14 (n = 483) | Chi-square | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Mentioned | Discussed | Mentioned | Discussed | p-value | ||||
| Â | n | 1% | n | 1% | n | 2% | n | 2% | Â |
ALL SITES (n = 800) | |||||||||
Age | 48 | 15.1 | 11 | 1.4 | 49 | 6.1 | 9 | 1.1 | 0.034 |
Diet | 34 | 10.7 | 17 | 2.1 | 51 | 6.4 | 20 | 2.5 | 0.94 |
Family history and/or genes | 54 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 58 | 12 | 42 | 8.7 | 0.337 |
Smoking | 14 | 4.4 | 8 | 1 | 34 | 4.3 | 7 | 0.9 | 0.127 |
Alcohol | 20 | 6.3 | 9 | 1.1 | 27 | 3.4 | 6 | 0.8 | 0.672 |
Environment | 13 | 4.1 | 2 | 0.3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.034 |
BREAST (n = 514) | |||||||||
Age | 35 | 15.5 | 9 | 4 | 24 | 8.3 | 3 | 1 | 0.012 |
Diet | 25 | 11.1 | 16 | 7.1 | 32 | 11.1 | 13 | 4.5 | 0.986 |
Family history and / or genes | 44 | 19.5 | 14 | 6.2 | 44 | 15.3 | 27 | 9.4 | 0.075 |
Smoking | 8 | 3.5 | 3 | 1.3 | 9 | 3.1 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.794 |
Alcohol | 18 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 16 | 5.6 | 6 | 2.1 | 0.275 |
Environment | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.3 | 0.011 |
PROSTATE (n = 162) | |||||||||
Age | 8 | 15.4 | 2 | 3.8 | 15 | 13.6 | 4 | 3.6 | 0.766 |
Diet | 6 | 11.5 | 1 | 1.9 | 5 | 4.5 | 6 | 5.5 | 0.099 |
Family history and / or genes | 7 | 13.5 | 2 | 3.8 | 8 | 7.3 | 8 | 7.3 | 0.608 |
Smoking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.328 |
Alcohol | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.963 |
Environment | 2 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.038 |
LUNG (n = 63) | |||||||||
Age | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.3 | 1 | 2.3 | 0.492 |
Diet | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
Family history and / or genes | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4.7 | 0.492 |
Smoking | 6 | 30 | 5 | 25 | 18 | 41.9 | 6 | 14 | 0.367 |
Alcohol | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.139 |
Environment | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 0.661 |
COLORECTAL (n = 61) | |||||||||
Age | 5 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 21.4 | 1 | 2.4 | 0.674 |
Diet | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 33.3 | 1 | 2.4 | 0.157 |
Family history and / or genes | 2 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.1 | 5 | 11.9 | 0.656 |
Genes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.8 | 3 | 7.1 | 0.333 |
Smoking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11.9 | 0 | 0 | 0.116 |
Alcohol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 21.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.029 |
Environment | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | n/a |