Table 3 reports gender differences in participant responses. Gender correlated strongly with sexuality (changes in sexual feelings), with men expressing higher unmet need than women (r = 0.901, p < 0.001). Women had significantly higher psychological unmet needs of ‘feeling down or depressed’ (r = 0.42, p < 0.001) and ‘feelings of sadness’ (r = 0.26, p < 0.001), as compared with male respondents. The need to be informed about cancer directly from the doctor, rather than a relative, was also moderately high among women (r = 0.37, p < 0.001). Physical limitation, such as ‘feeling unwell a lot of time’, positively correlated (r = 0.28, p < 0.001) with the unmet needs for women. ‘Uncertainity about the future’ (psychological) was directly correlated with patient age (r = 0.14, p < 0.05 2-tailed significance, data not shown).