TABLE 2—
Estimated Odds of Receiving Chemotherapy Alone: Women With Regional-Stage Breast Cancer, Florida, July 1, 1997–December 31, 2000 (n = 10 052)
| No. of Casesa | % Receiving Chemotherapy | OR (95% CI)b | |
| Age at diagnosis, per 1-y increase | . . . | . . . | 0.95 (0.95, 0.96) |
| Marital status | |||
| Single | 1177 | 55.3 | 1.0 |
| Married | 5698 | 56.1 | 1.33 (1.14, 1.56) |
| Separated/divorced | 1162 | 60.2 | 1.34 (1.10, 1.64) |
| Widowed | 2015 | 28.2 | 0.87 (0.71, 1.05) |
| Insurance status within hospital type | |||
| Nonteaching hospital | |||
| Uninsured | 352 | 67.1 | 1.0 |
| Privately insured | 4,710 | 57.2 | 0.71 (0.54, 0.94) |
| Medicare | 3,442 | 33.6 | 0.73 (0.54, 0.97) |
| Medicaid | 231 | 58.0 | 0.73 (0.48, 1.09) |
| Teaching hospital | |||
| Uninsured | 164 | 74.4 | 1.0 |
| Privately insured | 678 | 75.8 | 0.92 (0.55, 1.54) |
| Medicare | 357 | 43.7 | 0.60 (0.35, 1.03) |
| Medicaid | 118 | 87.3 | 2.08 (0.99, 4.40) |
| Race/ethnicity within hospital type | |||
| Nonteaching hospital | |||
| White non-Hispanic | 7,136 | 48.3 | 1.0 |
| Black non-Hispanic | 801 | 55.6 | 0.98 (0.82, 1.18) |
| Hispanic | 798 | 42.5 | 0.60 (0.50, 0.72) |
| Teaching hospital | |||
| White non-Hispanic | 911 | 66.1 | 1.0 |
| Black non-Hispanic | 200 | 68.0 | 0.75 (0.49, 1.16) |
| Hispanic | 206 | 76.2 | 0.96 (0.60, 1.54) |
Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.
aCases for which data on any study variable was missing were excluded from this analysis (n = 1123; see Methods).
bOR estimates are based on the logistic regression model, which includes age, marital status, health insurance status, race/ethnicity, hospital type race/ethnicity (P = .047), and hospital type health insurance status (P = .003). ORs are considered significant if the 95% CI does not include 1.0.