Pursuing equity in cancer care: implementation, challenges and preliminary findings of a public cancer referral center in rural Rwanda

Table 3 Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients seen at BCCOE during first year

Characteristics	Patients presenting for cancer evaluation/care in year one (n = 1144)		Patients diagnosed with cancer in year one (n = 759)
	n	%	n	%
Age	1144	100.00	759	100.00
<18	135	11.80	102	13.44
18–45	470	41.08	247	32.54
46–60	334	29.20	256	33.73
>60	205	17.92	154	20.29
Gender	1144	100.00	759	100.00
Male	355	31.03	240	31.62
Female	789	68.97	519	68.38
Residence Province	1144	100.01	759	100.00
Northern Province - within Burera District	168	14.69	67	8.83
Northern Province- OUTSIDE Burera District	226	19.76	136	17.92
Other Provinces within Rwanda	702	61.36	522	68.77
Outside Rwanda	13	1.14	11	1.45
Unknown or not documented	35	3.06	23	3.03
Type of referring facility	1144	100.00	759	100.00
Referral or District Hospital	735	64.25	549	72.33
Other type of facility (including outside Rwanda)	153	13.37	90	11.86
Not documented	256	22.38	120	15.81
Insurance Status	1144	100.00	750	98.82
Mutuelles	821	71.77	564	74.31
Other or not documented	323	28.23	186	24.51
HIV status at intake	1144	100.00	759	100.00
Positive	67	5.86	57	7.51
Negative	500	43.71	367	48.35
Unknown or not documented	577	50.43	335	44.14
Smoking history	1144	100.00	759	100.01
Current of previous	189	16.52	150	19.77
Never	645	56.38	471	62.06
Unknown or not documented	310	27.10	138	18.18
Performance status at intake (ECOG) ^a			759	100.00
0			313	41.24
1			102	13.44
2			46	6.06
3			29	3.82
4			13	1.71
Unknown or not documented			256	33.73

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