Table 3 Survival of Cancer of Unknown Primary patients by demographic and clinical characteristics. Patients diagnosed during hospital admission, 1998–2011, West of Scotland, N = 5397

 Male

32

1

 Female

34

0.95 (0.90,1.00)

0.063

  < 60 year

60

1

 60–69 years

38

1.41 (1.27,1.56)

<0.001

 70–79 years

31

1.76 (1.60,1.93)

<0.001

  > = 80 year

27

1.94 (1.77,2.14)

<0.001

 1. Most deprived

33

1

 2

32

0.98 (0.91,1.05)

0.533

 3

33

0.98 (0.90,1.06)

0.618

 4

33

0.96 (0.88,1.06)

0.445

 5. least deprived

36

0.83 (0.75,0.91)

<0.001

 C77

71

1

 C78

29

2.21 (1.86,2.63)

<0.001

 C79

53

1.49 (1.25,1.79)

<0.001

 C80

28

2.27 (1.91,2.71)

<0.001

 Adenocarcinoma

48

1

 SCC

89

0.63 (0.52,0.76)

<0.001

 NoS

26

1.53 (1.44,1.64)

<0.001

 Other

84

0.61 (0.51,0.72)

<0.001

Type of admission

<0.001

 Elective

75

1

 Emergency

30

1.88 (1.72,2.06)

<0.001

Specialty of admission

<0.001

 Geriatric medicine

28

1

 Medicine

30

0.87 (0.79,0.95)

0.002

 Surgery

40

0.66 (0.60,0.73)

<0.001

 Other

44

0.52 (0.43,0.63)

<0.001