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. 2008 Dec 3;100(23):1717–1723. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djn387

Table 3.

Oncology consultation and underuse of adjuvant treatment among black and Hispanic women and among white and Asian women with breast cancer before and after the implementation of the feedback and tracking registry*

Black and Hispanic women
White and Asian women
Treatment Preintervention patients (n = 239) Postintervention patients (n = 112) P Preintervention patients (n = 400) Postintervention patients (n = 188) P
Oncologist seen, no. (%) 206 (86) 108 (96) .001 326 (82) 182 (97) <.001
No RT after BCS, no. (%) 33 (23) 7 (10) .02 31 (12) 17 (13) .89
No chemotherapy, no. (%) 17 (26) 2 (6) .013 11 (18) 6 (16) .77
No hormonal therapy, no. (%) 42 (27) 7 (11) .01 43 (16) 7 (6) .01
Missing ≥1 adjuvant treatment, no. (%) 71 (30) 15 (13) <.001 74 (19) 28 (15) .28
*

RT = radiotherapy; BCS = breast-conserving surgery.

P values were generated from chi-square tests.

Percentages shown reflect the number of women who did not receive a given adjuvant therapy compared with the number for whom each therapy was indicated (denominator not shown).