Demographic outline of the patients in the data sets
| Leukaemia (%) | Lymphoma (%) | Solid tumours (%) | Brain tumours (%) | Median age (min-max) | Outpatients (%) | Poststem cell transplant (%) | Central line in situ (%) | |
| Leeds | 11 (41) | 3 (11) | 10 (37) | 3 (11) | 67 months (15–219) | 41 (85) | 2 (7) | 48 (100) |
| Liverpool | 9 (43) | 2 (9) | 10 (48) | 0 | 70 months (8.5–228) | 21 (100) | 0 | 21 (100) |
| Sheffield | 19 (40) | 4 (9) | 17 (36) | 7 (15) | 79 months (5–205) | 150 (84) | 15 (9) | 161 (98) |
| Nottingham | 37 (59) | 1 (1.5) | 19 (30) | 6 (9.5) | 48 months (6–118) | 155 (100) | 4 (6) | 141 (91) |
| Belgium | 9 (56) | 2 (13) | 5 (31) | 0 | 86 months (30–277) | 0 | 1 (4) | 24 (89) |
| Melbourne a | 63 (62) | 10 (10) | 24 (24) | 4 (4) | 6 years (1–14) | 101 (100) | 0 | 62 (96) |
| Melbourne b | 180 (55) | 25 (8) | 88 (27) | 34 (10) | 76 months (6.7–241) | 648 (100) | 15 (4) | 310 (95) |