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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 20.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2008 Jul 9;300(2):173–181. doi: 10.1001/jama.300.2.173

Table 2.

Characteristics of men with localized prostate cancer in high-and low-use PADT health service areas

Moderately-differentiated Poorly-differentiated All localized cancers
High N=4,278 Low N=5,898 High N=1,433 Low N=1,478 High N=6,302 Low N=6,673
PADT within 180 days 2,058 (48.1%) 1,502 (25.5%) 1,058 (73.8%) 757 (51.2%) 3,321 (52.5%) 2,041 (30.6%)
PADT within 18 months 2,067 (48.3%) 1,652 (28.0%) 1,081 (75.6%) 815 (55.1%) 3,396 (53.9%) 2,247 (33.7%)
Mean duration of PADT use (months; standard deviation) 21 (30) 16 (29) 34 (34) 26 (33) 24 (31) 19 (31)
Median age at diagnosis (years; interquartile range) 78 (73–82) 77 (72–81) 79 (75–83) 79 (74–83) 78 (74–82) 77 (73–81)
Median zip-level income (interquartile range) $41,284 (33,816–56, 958) $44,939 (34,490–56,912) $42,545 (35,091–59,722) $41,580 (31,166–52,645) $42,408 (34,382–60,669) $44,107 (33,176–56,041)
Mean Charlson score (standard deviation) 0.22 (0.63) 0.22 (0.64) 0.19 (0.58) 0.22 (0.64) 0.21 (0.61) 0.22 (0.64)
Clinical stage T1 2,619 (61.2%) 3,742 (63.5%) 698 (48.7%) 739 (50.0%) 3,651 (57.9%) 3,901 (58.5%)