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. 2025 May 15;5(1):e250029. doi: 10.1530/EO-25-0029

Table 2.

Baseline pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor patient demographics by race.

Demographic Overall (n = 179) African American/Black (n = 49) White (n = 130) P-value
Age at time of surgery, median (IQR) 60.3 (50.9–67.7) 57.2 (47.8–64.6) 62.3 (52.9–68.6) 0.009
Gender
 Female 93 (52.0%) 34 (69.4%) 59 (45.4%) 0.004
 Male 86 (48.0%) 15 (30.6%) 71 (54.6%)
BMI (mean +/−SD) 31.4 +/−8.2 31.7 +/−9.7 31.3 +/−7.7 0.812
Married 126 (70.4%) 25 (51.0%) 101 (77.7%) 0.004
Insurance type
 Private 93 (50.0%) 25 (48.1%) 68 (50.7%) 0.953
 Governmental 84 (45.2%) 23 (44.2%) 61 (45.5%)
 Uninsured 4 (2.2%) 1 (1.9%) 3 (2.2%)
Distance to treating facility, median (miles, IQR) 78.5 (36.5–120.6) 88.9 (54.2–139.3) 73.9 (33.2–102.7) 0.078
Tumor size (cm, mean ± SD) 3.4 ± 2.8 4.1 ± 3.7 3.1 ± 2.4 0.031
Surgical margin status: involved 27 (15.3%) 8 (16.7%) 19 (14.7%) 0.9441
Differentiation: well 126 (71.2%) 33 (68.8%) 93 (72.1%) 0.840
Tumor grade: 1 80 (45.2%) 20 (41.7%) 60 (46.5%) 0.8122
Tumor grade: 2 57 (32.2%) 15 (31.3%) 42 (32.6%)
Tumor grade: unknown 40 (22.7%) 13 (27.6%) 27 (20.9%)
Functional PNET 24 (13.4%) 5 (10.2%) 19 (14.6%) 0.270
Metastatic disease 21 (11.7%) 7 (14.3%) 14 (10.8%) 0.332

Bold indicates statistical significance, P < 0.05.